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Among the prolific women novelists in English in India, Manju Kapur is a distinguished novelist, who deals with women, their problems, love, marriage and sex in all her novels. Her novels are Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2003), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2008), Custody (2011), and Brothers (2016). Even though she presents male characters, they are not up to that level to attract readers as that of her womencharacters - Virmati in Daughters, Astha in Woman, Nisha in Home, Nina in Immigrant, and Shagun and Ishita in Custody. Through Virmati, Kapur deals with the theme of travails in self-identity vis a vis socio-cultural identity. By presenting Astha, Kapur presents a lesbian world and challenges the traditional modes of love, sex and marriage. Nisha revolts against the established notion of old family system. Nina, a thirty year English Lecturer, is struggling to make herself settled somewhere, she too marries a man, Ananda, and falls in love with Anton. Shagun, who has lost her individual identity in her stupid early marriage, seeks for her lost selfhood in her extra marital relationship with Ashok Khanna.In fact, Kapur has created women characters like Virmati and Ida in Daughters, Astha and Pipeelika in Woman, Nisha and others in Home and Nina in Immigrant and Ishita and Shagun in Custody to portray the positions and roles of women and the problems that they confirm in love, marriage and sex.Kapur's Daughters is a feminist discourse. It not only deals with Virmati and her problems arising out of her marriage to a Professor, but also related to the problems of Virmati's daughter, Ida, who breaks up her marriage as she is denied maternity by her husband. The forced abortion is the termination of her marriage. She has that strength that Virmati lacks. In the course of the novel, Virmati shows her courage to fight against male chauvinism for her right of education, right of choosing her mate in life and economic independence. In Virmati, one can see the incipient new woman, who is conscious, introspective, educated and wants to carve out a niche for her.

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