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The paper focuses on the shells of the hypocritical male authoritarianism being crushed in the society. One is not born but becomes a woman. K.R. Meera in the novel “Aarachar” translated as “The Hang woman” prepares Chetna Griddha Mullick to face life as it comes, both bold and beautiful taking into a profession that our society calls taboo for women. Being a hang-woman, witnessing death by her own self demands more of a psychological trauma. The researcher discusses the22-year old girl Chetna and poignantly speaks on how the indigenous male chauvinists are brought under restrain and even has an unending incite on the society. The city of Calcutta has various elements and inspiring qualities that shaped in the vigour and hard heartedness in the first women executioner of the country. Hypocrites of the society earn her hatred. She becomes a feeble young girl before the young gentleman of the media for whom she has a liking but she moulds herself to uncover his hypocrisy and authority that creates her identity. Chetna uses her intellect in inferiorating her lover through words when he mentally and physically shows his authority on her. She bridles the reality of male dominance through two important men of her life, her father and her lover. Chetna blames the amenable Indian womanhood and espouse total disregard and indifference to men. The paper looks into for a deeper insight of Chetna’s struggles as a craven young girl to a self-sustaining professional.