Author(s): Sugandhyasree Bhattacharjee

Abstract: Anita Nair is a well known novelist, dramatist, essayist in the postmodern writings.She attempts to raisr the voice of the subaltern in her novels and set examples for the society who thinks women as an inferior human being or a women who has identity only through her husband or family.This paper is a study of Anita Nair's Lessons in Forgetting in the light of subaltern voice of the female protagonist ‘Meera’in the novel. The crux of the play is that women who is taken to be as a part of physical and mental abuse should protest back to prove her potentiality in the society. As the play opens, the audience witnesses the truth that women can be self dependent on herself if she decides to be. She needs no one to hold her to run her future.She is not born to treat her for domestic abuses.

Keywords: Anita Nair, Women Dramatist, Subaltern Voice, Domestic Abuse.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.4.2.20