Role of Education in Eliminating Gender Biases in Kavery Nambisan’s The Hills of Angheri

Abstract

In a country like India, gender biases are like everyday routines. There are special roles for men, or sometimes there won’t be any roles at all. However, women are dumped with umpteen roles and responsibilities both in the family and society. In the name of family and societal values, women are forbidden from experiencing their fundamental rights like education, career, and personal likes and dislikes. A woman has to accustom herself to the existing norms in the family and society. Kavery Nambisan is a doctor by profession and also a prominent woman writer in Indian writing in English. Her novels include several women characters who struggle because of gender discrimination. Nambisan’s “The Hills of Angheri” portrays the struggle of the woman protagonist, Nalli, who faces enormous obstacles because of being a woman. The novel portrays how she overcomes those obstacles and achieves her dream of becoming a doctor through her education. This study focuses on highlighting the importance of education in empowering women in a society that shows a huge disparity between men and women.