Indian literature

Role of Class and Corporate Life in Manju Kapur's Custody
Role of Class and Corporate Life in Manju Kapur's Custody
In Manju Kapur's Custody, class and corporate life are not mere backdrops — they are central forces that determine who gets to divorce, who wins custody, and who rebuilds their... Read more...
Marriage and Ambition in Manju Kapur's Custody
Marriage and Ambition in Manju Kapur's Custody
In Manju Kapur's Custody, marriage is not just a personal bond but a battlefield of ambition, desire, and social expectation. This post analyses how each character's personal ambition shapes —... Read more...
Social and Psychological Consequences of Divorce in Indian Society - A Study of Manju Kapur's Custody
Social and Psychological Consequences of Divorce in Indian Society - A Study of Manju Kapur's Custody
 Manju Kapur's Custody is a realistic study of what divorce does to an upper-middle-class Delhi family. This post analyses the social stigma faced by divorced women, the double standard for men, the... Read more...
Impact of Marital Conflict on Children - Arjun and Roohi in Manju Kapur's Custody
Impact of Marital Conflict on Children - Arjun and Roohi in Manju Kapur's Custody
 In Manju Kapur's Custody, the real victims of marital conflict are the children — 12-year-old Arjun and 6-year-old Roohi. This post analyses their emotional and psychological suffering, the loyalty conflict created... Read more...
Ishita - The Step Mother and the Search for Motherhood in Manju Kapur's Custody
Ishita - The Step Mother and the Search for Motherhood in Manju Kapur's Custody
In Manju Kapur's Custody, Ishita is a divorcee declared infertile by society, yet she becomes the most devoted mother in the novel. This post analyses her journey from social rejection to... Read more...
Manju Kapur as the Jane Austen of India
Manju Kapur as the Jane Austen of India
Manju Kapur is often called the Jane Austen of India for her sharp focus on domestic life, marriage, class, and women's choices. Like Austen, she uses irony and realism to... Read more...
Shagun - The New Woman in Manju Kapur's Custody
Shagun - The New Woman in Manju Kapur's Custody
Shagun in Manju Kapur's Custody is one of the boldest examples of the New Woman in Indian English fiction. Beautiful, educated, and unwilling to accept an emotionally dead marriage, she... Read more...
The Theme of Divorce and Custody in Manju Kapur's Custody
The Theme of Divorce and Custody in Manju Kapur's Custody
Manju Kapur's Custody (2011) explores divorce and child custody in upper-middle-class Delhi with unflinching realism. Through Shagun, Raman, and Ishita, Kapur examines how marriage breaks, how children suffer, and how... Read more...
Feudal Muslim Society in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
Feudal Muslim Society in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column captures the last days of feudal Muslim society in pre-independence Lucknow. This post analyses how the taluqdari class, the purdah system, and rigid social hierarchies... Read more...
The Development of Self: Laila's Journey in Sunlight on a Broken Column
The Development of Self: Laila's Journey in Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column traces the remarkable journey of Laila — an orphan girl raised in the fading grandeur of a feudal Lucknow household — as she grows into... Read more...
The Arrival of British in Delhi as Depicted in Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
The Arrival of British in Delhi as Depicted in Ahmed Ali's "Twilight in Delhi"
Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi captures the British arrival not as a single event but as a slow erasure of Muslim civilization. Through the 1911 Coronation Durbar, memories of 1857,... Read more...
Attia Hosain - Life Background and Literary Significance
Attia Hosain: Life Background and Literary Significance
Attia Hosain was one of the first Muslim women to write in English about the inner world of aristocratic Lucknow. From zenana life to Partition trauma, her novel Sunlight on... Read more...