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Abstract
Traditional writers mainly projected women as happy housewives and dedicated mothers. But Anita Nair andGithaHariharan in their fictional world reject the unrealistic images of the magnified magnanimity of motherhood and the jubilant complacency of wifehood. The novelists under study definitely aim at motivating and empowering women to survive successfully in a socially inequitable sexist society. Woman bonding or sisterhood can make a counter world which is an alternative to malecentric oppression and dominant social norms. Anita Nair andGithaHariharandeal with such women who counter the male oppression with the help of sympathetic women. Women conceive of their mutual friendship as a political weapon against a heavily subjugating androcentric value system. Their sisterhood perceives woman’s bonding as one of the inevitable solutions to their innate urge for human dignity. The present paper showcases Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe and Lessons in Forgetting,GithaHariharan’sThe Thousand Faces of Night and When Dreams Travel demonstrate effectively the ideas of woman bonding and sharing of woman’s experiences and how strategically such bondings are used in the narratives of self-discovery.