Shashi Deshpande is a famous contemporary Indian novelist in English. She has immensely depicted the condition of women in the fast-changing socio- economic milieu of India and the conflicts, trials and tribulations they encounter. Her women characters are very sensitive, self- conscious, analysed and creative. They are the normal women struggling to find their own voice. While women are expected to manifest divinity in their daily life, the burden of such expectations becomes a form of oppression for both men and women. In such conflicting situations, women are supposed to be silent. However, Silence in Deshpande’s novels becomes an assistant for women to go through a process of self- introspection, self- analysis and self- realization. The present paper proposes to understand this with reference to Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time.