Feminism is a belief that women should be allowed the same rights, power and chances as men and be treated in the same way or the set of activities intended to achieve this state. This is the definition one can notice in the oxford dictionary. The expression is as old as the English Language. Anita Nair has turned out to be a great success. “Mistress” is the story of women’s search for freedom and women’s conditions in a male dominated society. The novel raises the questions whether the role of an Indian woman as a representative of other women, living under oppressive patriarchal systems in relation to cultural resistance, should be restricted only to their roles as wives and mothers. In such a world, woman’s role is limited to reproduction regardless of her own desires and needs. Hence, this paper tries to point out how Anita Nair projects Indian feminism and attitude through women characters in her novels through her novels. Anita Nair has signaled the arrival of a sensitive writer who could perceive deeper mysteries in people’s personalities and take the reader on a wonderful journey of discovery. These novels have a talent for probing the insular world. In these pages I shall attempt an appreciation of Anita Nair’s powers for the delineation of the deeper layers of the woman’s personality.