Now-a-days the proper definition of woman or womanhood has become subjected to several debates. Though the feminist scholars mostly discarded the traditional roles of women as submissive ones and posited t he picture of women as independent human -beings. While it is apparent that in most of the cases the patriarchal hierarchies are responsible for women ’s identity crisis, feminist writers tried to prepare the ground for women where every unknown Judith Shake speare would get the scope to enlarge her talent or capability . The situation of women in India is more severe than that of the Western nations. This paper tries to show through the women characters in Vijay Tendulkar ’s select plays how Indian women can re tain their individuality irrespective of several external and internal obstacles