A Woman’s longing for love in Namita Gokhale’s novel Gods, Graves & Grandmother

Namita gokhale is one of the Indian feminist writers, who received first centenary national award for literature from the Asam sahitya sabha. In her novel Gods, Graves and Grandmother, she shows a woman’s ignorance, and her search for love, through the character of Gudiya. Though a woman bounded in family relations, bare all humilities, tolerate all difficulties but find happiness in small things, but expect some love from family members. The present paper deals with the life of a young girl, Gudiya, her thirst for love from her childhood to end of her life. She neglected by her mother who concern herself only, her grandmother who spend all her time to earn money, and her husband, Kalki also never takes care of her, even didn’t provide food to her. Phoolwati and Roxanne Lamba are not family members of Gudiya, but show sympathy and love on her. She adaptable her life from havali to life in the temple. Gudiya can’t bear the domination of Kalki, so she protested, and gain courage, free herself from all bonding. Qualitative method of research has been used to collect the information and to write this research article to got to know the sufferings of the young protagonist and this paper represents how could she shaped her own life beautifully after going through the difficulties in her life.