Sarcouncil Journal of Arts and Literature Aims & Scope

Abstract: Historically and culturally, women, in Indian pastoral society suffer severe permissiveness of subjugation and submission. However, bad conditioning and treatment women encountered were highlighted as being parallel to exploiting a piece of land. Literature, the mirror and chain-link to society and social merits as far as demerits reflects wholly women’s status of inferiority in many societies as been marginalized and devalued due to extreme yet disparaging dominant tradition trends of individualism. This study is conducted in the light of the concept Ecofeminism with reference to Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (1980). This theory evaluates different aspects of cultures, including power distance, individualism vs. collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term vs. short-term orientation. Tacitly, Dipika Rai’s Someone Else’s Garden depicts the catastrophic situations to the maximum and the most deplorable conditions of baffling women in rural India. All but the elements of “uncertainty avoidance” and spiritual orientation envisaged the assimilation of women to nature being absolute, relative and relatively permissive.