Uma Vasudeva

[3] Her novels Song of Anusuya and Shreya of Sonagarh deal with the inner struggles of their woman protagonists.

[4] However, it was criticised by India Today as an unsuccessful foray into an alternative literary field by a writer who had presumably lost credibility in political writing following her publication of The Two Faces of Indira Gandhi.

[6] Shreya of Sonagarh, being of similar genre, invokes the theme of sex in relation to a woman's relationship with her husband and another lover.

[7] It describes the rise to political power of the protagonist, Shreya, a middle-class girl married into a princely family.

[9] Vasudeva's depiction of feminism has been described as being Western-biased, rather than rooted in Indian soil.