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