Does ‘Self-Actualization’ Motivates the Heroins of Shobha De?

Shobha De’s novels mirror the life styles of the elite and the middle classes;the middle class trying to search its identity in the aristocratic life-style of the elites, on one hand and, on the other, she is probing into the human-relationships in these classes. She is hardly concerned with the men in the society, as she does not nourish a good view of Indian males. She thinks they still live in the sixteenth century. So, a big reason she does not let her father-characters to come in the way of her heroines.