Why do you write about women? Shashi Deshpande, eminent novelist of contemporary Indian literature in English, has often faced this question from journalists and academics in her writing career. “Novel after novel, I hoped I would be read as a serious writer. Not as a woman writer writing about women, but it never seemed to happen,” she said while accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the fourth edition of AutHer Awards, organised jointly by The Times of India and JK Paper Ltd on Sunday.
The 84-year-old author, who lives in Bengaluru and sparingly travels these days, made a special appearance at the awards ceremony where she raised compelling questions through her speech.
