Emergence Of New Woman In Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman

Abstract

Indian Women Writers have been depicting women in various in carnations. Women portrayed by earlier Indian Women novelists are the silent sufferers, a strict follower of traditional values and ethics, the un holder of social taboos, an epitome of tolerance and patience, an exemplar to their counterparts, unlucky, uninsklucted about their rights and so on.  Women are not supposed to voice for their rights, assert against injustice or question the already existing rituals and customs.  Thay have to be silent, compliant, docile and in active without demanding any of their rights as women they have to merely exist subjected to the patriarchal system.  Concepts of individualism, quest for identity, protests and rebelliousness are alien ideas in Indian culture as far as women are concerned recently, the post-colonial Indian Women novelists have brought an immense change in the tendency of depicting women characters.  A remarkable range of India’s most accomplished women novelists like kamala Markendaya, Nayantara sahgal, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharathi Mukherjee Gita Hariharan and Manju Kapur have intuitively perceived the gender issues that upset women and portrayed women as an individual who rise against the suppressive and oppressive forces of patriarchy Women are no longer characterized to surrender, submit and suffer to martyrdom they reveal the hidden secrets and enclose the deliberate denials that are refutable in today’s context.