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'A Matter of Time' is a 1996 novel by Shashi Deshpande. Unusually in Deshpande's fiction the focus is on the impact of the actions of a male character, Gopal, who leaves his family.Mohit Kumar Ray, Rama Kundu 'Studies in Women Writers in English' 2004- Volume 6 - Page 235 8126908165 "Splintered Self Journeying Toward Integration: A Matter of Time - The novel A Matter of Time focusses on the predicament of a male character, Gopal. On the surface it projects the world of middle-class educated women who are caught in the net of problems which arise from the conflict between their view of life and the conventional values of society."'Muses India: Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie' 1476603669
Chetan Deshmane - 2013 Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time exemplifies a recovery of feminist identity by foregrounding the disintegration of grihastha, or the household stage, in the orthodox Hindu system known as Varnashramadharma and its ...