Abstract Institutions of marriage as well as family which are essential for a community, have been situated supporting encumbrances of sui generis currently. Especially acidulous marriage related pressures are compelling women and stand as nit-picking years in their initial wedded life. Two novels of Sudha Murthy are put to test here:Sudha Murthy’s Mahashweta (2007); Gently Falls the Bakula (2008). How pain in the lives of the two womenprotagonists renovate their path of journey towards empowerment that sanctions them a skill-acquisition through chopping and scissoring put on by famous Portuguese professional foot-ball player Cristiano Ronaldo to fight back on wrong-doing which has been showcased here as ‘Naari Sakthi’(Women-Empowerment) of both Anupama and Shrimati textually and pictorially. “There are no more distinctions between . . . male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (St. Paul, Galatians 3:278)