An average Indian woman’s life revolves around her home and hearth. No sooner does she finish studies than she is married to become busy with a family. Her youth is spent in catering to the needs of her husband and nurturing her children. Her entire family is dependent on her. With the passage of time, everything goes on changing. The children grow up and develop their own individual lives and drift away from the mother and home. The husband, busy in climbing up the ladder of success, does not have as much time for the wife as he had earlier. The bond of physical attraction which once made the man and wife inseparable becomes weak with time. The result? By the time a woman reaches the middle age, she becomes lonely and frustrated. She begins to feel like a useless appendage in the family fabric. Her anxiety is further deepened with the onset of menopause. She panics and feels that the end of the fertility period spells the end of womanhood.