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This volume investigates the tremendous contemporary spurt in the literary creativity of women writers in Indian English Fiction. Demonstrating that fictional creation is no male territory and women are no trespasser in it, the contributors to this study, both discerning critics and major fictionists, scrutinize and evaluate the diverse, inter-related aspects of women’s fiction. The volume meticulously brings together the voices of these persistent and determined Sheherzades, too significant to miss or ignore, in a wide-ranging selection of perceptive essays, written in jargon-free and refreshing prose.

It is sad, this complete desert bemoaned Anita Desai not very long ago, In 1983, to be precise. She had not stopped there. Commenting on the dearth in women's fiction in English, she had despondently gone on to declare, There is very little fiction written by women in India, and that though the maximum number of novels was written in English, there were not more than half a dozen women writers of fiction.

The claim of this volume is modest, Despite coverage of more than a score Indian women writers in English, it aims only to open a window to the exciting new directions that the mission of women's writing of fiction is taking. It neither purports to be, nor desires to be, the last or the definitive word on the subject. If it succeeds in generating critical and creative interest in the field, its purpose has been achieved.