Quest for Feminine Identity in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters

Manju Kapur is a renowned novelist, in Indian writing in English. Her character 
that is caught in the complex web of tradition that appears in two forms in Difficult
Daughters. firstly, it manifests itself in the form of patriarchal form of society and
secondly, in the form of male chauvinism. The novelist is very capably presented
her characters during the period of change that characterizes them with special
distinctive characters. A writer, worth the name must capture this time spirit because
the time spirit expresses the general mood and temperament of that particular
generation, quite distinguishing from the one that proceeds and the one that follows.
Her novels touche many issues like revolt against deep-rooted family tradition, the
search for selfhood, women’s rights, marriage and the battle for independence at
both fronts personal and national. This paper focuses quest for identity in Manju
Kapur’s Difficult Daughters