Exploitation of Manju Kapur's A Married Woman

In the history of Indian English novel, women have been perceptually attempting to express their ideas, emotions and feelings through their writings. Indian women novelists exhibit their own experience and the multi-faceted experience of Indian women in their short stories and novels. The novelist, in her novels takes into account the complexity of life, different histories, cultures and different structures of values, the woman’s question, despite basic solidarity, needs to be tackled in relation to the socio-cultural situation. Women under the patriarchal pressure and control are subjected to too much more brunts and social ostracism. They are more discriminated and are biased in lieu of their sex. The lives women live and struggle under the oppressive mechanism of a closed society are reflected in the writings of Manju Kapur. One can see the budding of new women in Manju Kapur’s heroines, who do not want to be mere puppets for others to move as they like. Defying patriarchal notions that enforce women towards domesticity, they assert their individuality and aspire self-reliance through education. They nurture the desire of being independent and leading lives of their own. They are not silent rebels but are bold, outspoken, determined and action-oriented