Language learning cannot be done in isolation as it is a social process and helps in interacting with people of diverse culture and tradition. This Multiculturalism enables any language to become more alive, vibrant and meaningful. In today's context; social media applications or software, undoubtedly, directly or indirectly strengthens the process of language learning in multicultural milieu. The application of WhatsApp is growing at a very fast pace across the globe. It is gaining popularity among students as it enhances the LSRW skills in a multicultural and multilingual environment. English as a language has occupied a very prominent place in Indian society. As a Lingua Franca, it is being used by a great number of Indians and this number is increasing steadily but gradually. It is emerging as a link language for the people of North, South, East, and West, where regional languages like Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, and Kannada are widely spoken along with regional dialects. In this background, the present exploratory study discusses the application of WhatsApp for enhancing language learning skills in multicultural environment.

The treatment of a person or particular group of people differently, in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated:" 1 Literature is a true expression of life through the medium of language. Its success lies in amalgamation of both ability and morality in such a striking way that art, in the long run, becomes the thought. The Indian English Women Novelists enhanced Indian English fiction through female awareness. Shashi Deshpande is one of the renowned women novelists whose novels bring into light a realistic and influensive demonstration of Indian women's status in the broader societal context. The Dark Holds No Terror explores the trauma of a middleclass working women who has become a trap in the male dominated society. Women were treated as second class citizens were assigned their due place in the novel The Dark Holds No Terrors. In modern Indian fiction the credit of representing the "silent voice" of woman goes to Shashi Deshpande. She unfolds the true picture of educated women, her condition in the society. Deshpande's novel, The Dark Holds No Terrors, brings out the efforts of a female in a family where a male child is preferred to a female child. The novel reveals how the insensitive attitude of the family towards a female can drive her into a psychiatric state of mind. The central character of the novel is Saru who experiences the lack of interest of her mother and feels guilty herself because, the guilt of mothers' death, her own marriage and her thinking about her husband. He is drowned at the age of seven. Her mother preferred her brother and she is always neglected. Simone de Beauvoir once said, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. It is civilization as a whole that produces this creature which is described as feminine". The present paper is aimed to discuss the Feministic Perspective in Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors.