Dr Ajay Kumar Sharma is Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, Maharaj Singh College, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (India). Dr Sharma is a genuine pursuer of knowledge with a vast reservoir of 25 years’ experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Besides publishing two books entitled, Indian Writing in English: A Kaleidoscope of Recent Criticism, and Critical Perspectives on Indian English Literature, thirty scholarly articles in reputed research journals and anthologies, he has presented seventeen research papers and participated in twenty six national and international seminars, conferences and workshops. He can be contacted at ajay2570@rediffmail.com.

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• Redefining Womanhood: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors in Feminist Perspective