“manju kapur”

Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer, struggling to make ends meet for herself and her widowed mother. She sees herself as increasingly off the shelf—after all what prospects would an impoverished girl have without a father to marry her off? Then, unexpectedly, a proposal arrives. Ananda is ... More

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, "Difficult Daughters" is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love ... More

“Astha was brought up properly, as befits a woman, with large supplements of fear...” “In between they talked, the talk of discovery and attraction, the teasing and pleasure of an intimacy that was complete and absolute. Afterwards Astha felt strange, making love to a woman took getting used t... More

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, "Difficult Daughters" is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love ... More

Married Woman is the story of an artist whose canvas challenges the constraints of middle-class existence. A beautifully honest and seductive story of love, set at a time of political and religious upheaval, A Married Woman is for anyone who has known life's responsibilities.... More