from the creative pen

Psychological Study of Mother-Daughter Relationship: An Indian Perspective (2013): The book is based on the research of the author conducted in the course of Masters of Philosophy. The word ‘daughter’ denotes, especially in Indian culture, a specific role played by a girl as the reservoir of family repute, a symbol of obedience and an embodiment of the mother’s aptitude. It seems as if every daughter is born with some kind of debt, owing to her mother, to be paid by reincarnating her mother’s self and perpetuating the aspiration and values of the mother’s private domain. The amount of closeness, ripened during the upbringing of the daughter, fixes mother and daughter in a relationship of its kind, glued with the knots of perennial dilemma. Stupefied by the mother’s expectations and demanding nature, the daughter generally seeks a secure refuge, either in education or in a love, not knowing the consequences of the impending separation. Imagine how the understanding of this relationship can improve your performance in your family. To gain a sense of security in your personal relations and to value the amount of intimacy you share with your mother or daughter, do read and find out the magic of this relationship.

Counter-Narratives of Mother-Daughter Encounter: A Deconstructive Study (2017): The book is based on the author’s research while pursuing Doctor of Philosophy. A daughter, too, needs space to be a woman. Her obedience to her mother and society does not always pay for her salvation. When she is disappointed, she tries to set herself free from the influence of her mother to create her own standards of living. Similarly, being mother is not enough; one has to choose between the self and the society. Self-conscious mothers are usually looked down by the society that crowns them with motherhood. The mother once seen as dominating, the daughter realizes after growing up, is in reality not dominating but dominated. The dominated figure does not provide a very adequate model for the daughter who is caught into conflicting social roles. Application of Deconstruction here puts forth hitherto proclaimed truths about mothers and daughters into question with a conviction that all is not good with the way mothers and daughters are being represented in Indian English narratives. Differently defined across cultures, mother and daughter can be the same person. In one woman lives both inextricably after the realization that from cradle to grave every woman is essentially a daughter converted into mother by patriarchy.