Identity Crisis among Women in Difficult Daughter and A Married Woman

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Poonam Kharb1, Sudhir Narayan Singh2 (Research Scholar, Singhania University Pacheri Bari1, Associate Professor, Department of English, TITS Bhiwani2)

Indian fiction in English has been deepened by several highly talented women novelists including Kamla Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande and Manju Kapur etc. They have written of Indian women, their conflicts and predicaments against the background of contemporary India. Manju Kapur is a professor of English at Miranda House in Delhi. Having done her graduation from Miranda House, Manju did her MA in English from Dalhousie University in Canada and sis her M. Phil. from Delhi University. She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia and lives in New Delhi. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, received the Commonwealth Award for the Eurasian region. With several books to her credit, Manju is, these days, busy “struggling with a novel based in both India and Canada, tentatively called The Immigrant. It is about an NRI marriage.” Happy that women’s writing has come of age in India, she says, “Women have a lot of things to say. But, unfortunately not much is given to them. However, there is a lot of interest in what women have to say – and many, specially the regional women writers, write under tremendous personal pressure.