Manju Kapur’s Brothers: A Study In Political And Social Theme

Abstract

Indian women novelists are gaining ground worldwide and winning critical appraisal and international recognition. Their work is no longer considered as something derogatory, melodramatic, or sub-stuff. The cause of their success as novelists lies in the fact that they are born storytellers and they are endowed with the gift of delving deep into the workings of the human mind and heart with sympathy, sensitivity, and understanding. But there is also the common element of conflict of values and fighting between different ways of life. All the above prolific women novelists; Manju Kapur is also a distinguished person in the world of novels. She is one of the groups of Indian women writers in English who lived and wrote in India itself. She was born in 1948 in Amritsar, a city familiar with sectarian conflict. Manju Kapur has lived through turbulent times in India. She is the daughter of a bureaucrat and married her right-across-the road neighbour Gun Nidhi Dalmia which draws on her father’s bureaucratic days to create same condition with her father. She has four children- Amba, Maya, Katyayani and Agastya. She did her graduation from Miranda House University College for Women and went for M.A. at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and an M.Phil. from Delhi University. She teaches English Literature at Miranda, Delhi University. She projects a new vision of Indian woman in her fiction. She is the author of five novels. They are Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2009), and Custody (2011) Brothers (2016).