This paper endeavours to bring to the fore the hitherto unexplored world of present-day Indian women in the novels of the noteworthy Indian English novelist Uma Vasudev. This writer has chosen for her themes the female sensibility and psyche attempting to break free from the age-old conditioning of the society. Majority of these female protagonists are involved in illicit relationships which they feel are lending a new meaning and sense of purpose and direction to their lives. Her treatment of these women characters is very subtle and contemporary: her women are the liberated women of the modern India, aspiring to achieve something more than what life has already bestowed them with, nurturing their own ideas about love, relationships, education, marriage etc., and sex for them is no more taboo.