A ComparativeGender study in the works of Divakaruni and Thilagavathy

Comparative literature as a discipline provides the most effective means of conveying the peculiarities of the writers' works as well as the relationships between writersone in terms of anotherdespite differences in their socio-cultural milieu.Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and the regional Tamil novelist Thilagavathyleads us into several rewarding experiences of understanding.The book aims at analyzing the gender issues of the novelists Divakarunithe famous Diasporic English Writer and Thilagavathynoteworthy Tamil novelist cum first woman IPS officer in Tamilnadu.Both the writers are contemporaries and they lay claim to similar cultural and political backgrounds for their fiction.The writers condemn inequality and injustice in the treatment of women in the male chauvanist society.This book is an attempt in the gradually developing research in English--Tamil literary relations.