This paper illustrates the fictional forte of Kamala Markandaya. She holds a unique place among Indian women novelists in skillfully depicting woman and her problems. By such skillful portrayals, Kamala Markandaya has heralded the dawn of a new picture of the modern woman of the twenty-first century -- a woman with vision of the enlightened, awakened modern India by neatly depicting the social and cultural moves of the male -- dominated society.