The Indian novel Post Midnight's Children in English has achieved a respectable position throughout the world. After God of Small Things the number of Indian women writers increased. However, the literary scene occupied by their male colleagues is very different. Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Upmanyu Chatterjee, to name a few notable ones, focus on the issues that lie “externally”. Women writers have mostly limited themselves to the "inside" of the body or house in which they live and their relationships with the people who live around. Their narratives are about family. Shalini Shah (2008:04) reasons and says, “This asymmetry in the emotional response of men and women occurs in a patriarchal set-up where children are raised primarily by women.” Women are looking for their own identity. Women are passive victims of patriarchy. In The Thousand Faces of Night (TFN from now on) Githa Hariharan depicts the thousand faces of women in India from the past to the present, from Sita, Gandhari, Ambika, Amba (TFN: 249) to Devi in ​​TFN. These faces describe the multiple roles women have to play in society. They try to play and balance all the roles but are not satisfied with the roles they play. They are still searching for their own identity. Tales and legends play a crucial role in introducing a child to his society. (Kakkar, 2007: 37). There are creators or readers of myths (Pati and Baba) and a consumer/receiver of myths (Devi). Influenced by how myth readers decipher the myth, myth consumers spend their lives interpreting the myth around them. Throughout her childhood Devi grew up listening to her grandmother's stories. Her grandmother's stories were intended to tell Devi, a woman, the ways of behaving in a traditional ...... middle of paper ......ndhati environment. The god of small things.Random House Inc: New York. 1997.Sahgal, Nayatara. Rich like us. Harpercollin: New Delhi. 2010. Sahgal.Sen, Amartya. The Argumentative Indian: writings on Indian culture, history and identity. London: Penguin Books. 2005. 210. Sengari, Kumkum and Vaid, Sudesh (eds.). Recasting Women: Essays on Indian Colonial History. Kali for women: New Delhi. 1989. 17. Shah, Shalini. Female poets in classical Sanskrit literature. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. Volume: 15, Number 1.2008:04.Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. (Translator) Breast stories. Calcutta: Seagull Books Private Limited, 1997. 11-12. Tharoor, Shashi. India: from midnight to the millennium. Penguin Books: New Delhi. 1997.07-369. http://www.utne.com/2005-03-01/feminisms-fourth-wave.aspx#ixzz2PPEWDygY http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic- x.htm