Among the prolific women novelists in English in India, like Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal,Anita Desai,Shashi Deshpande,Jumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur is a distinguished novelist, who deals with women and their problems and love ,marriage and sex in all her novels. Manju Kapur a well known name in modern Anglo-Indian literature is widely known as the Jane Austen of India. Her novels deal with everything that is related to the modern family and the patriarchal society. Her novels present the contemporary picture of today’s woman who is eager to break free from the domestic walls of their house to build a world of their own. Her novels are Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, The Immigrant and Custody. Even though she presents male characters, they are not up to that level to attract readers as that of her women characters-Virmati in Daughters, Astha in Woman and Nisha in Home, Nina in Immigrant and Shagun and Ishita in Custody. This paper brings out Women and their problems in Manju
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Manju Kapur displays a mature understanding of the female psyche. She concentrates on women’s issues. She writes about women and comments about the space which women occupy in domestic relationships. Her fiction stresses the women’s need for self-fulfilment, autonomy, self-realization and a fight for her own destiny.
More than half of the population of the world is made of woman but she is not treated on par with man despite innumerable evolutions and revolutions. She has the same mental and moral power, yet she is not recognized as his equal. Actually in this male dominated society, she is wife, mother, sister, home maker etc.She is expected to serve, sacrifice, submit and tolerate each ill against her peacefully. Her individual self has very little recognition in the patriarchal society and so self-effacement is her normal way of life. In such conditions, the question of searching her identity is
Manju Kapur displays a mature understanding of the female psyche. She concentrates on women’s issues. She writes about women and comments about the space which women occupy in domestic relationships. Her fiction stresses the women’s need for self-fulfilment, autonomy, self-realization and a fight for her own destiny.
More than half of the population of the world is made of woman but she is not treated on par with man despite innumerable evolutions and revolutions. She has the same mental and moral power, yet she is not recognized as his equal. Actually in this male dominated society, she is wife, mother, sister, home maker etc.She is expected to serve, sacrifice, submit and tolerate each ill against her peacefully. Her individual self has very little recognition in the patriarchal society and so self-effacement is her normal way of life. In such conditions, the question of searching her identity is