Shashi Deshpande is an award winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Shriranga. She was born in 1938, Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978 and Dark Holds No Terrors published in 1980. She is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, for the novel That Long Silence. Her works also includes children‟s books. Keywords: Indian novelist, Kannada dramatist, Shriranga, Sahitya Akademi Award etc.