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This paper seeks to investigate how since a long time the institution of motherhood has victimized women who unconsciously supress their genuine feelings of ambivalence towards the role of that of a mother that they have to adopt and adapt themselves to, how they over stress themselves in order not to be termed as �bad mothers�, and how in Meera Syal�s novel Anita and Me we can trace these issues in the character of Daljit whose condition was exacerbated by the fact of her choosing to work outside home and her being far away from her homeland in a foreign land.

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