Conflict in Marital Relationship in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman and Custody

Manju Kapur’s novels A Married Woman and Custody really echo the conflicts in marital relationship in Indian setting. Marriage is viewed as a conventional image and heartfelt connection, which exists between two individuals’ life and generally acknowledged as matrimonial arrangement in the India. Today, because of the advent of modernity, women are longing to build up their own character in this technological destructive world. The modern woman, getting opportunities in education, training and employment, is being developed into a self-dependent and self-confident individual. This prompts challenges in marriages, particularly for the woman who wants to stay on with a free and imaginative life. Therefore, there is a definitive picture of mismanagement, exploitation, victimization and suffering after the marriage. The paper uncovers the suffocation of modern woman in an arranged marriage setting with special reference to Indian culture. This paper likewise attempts to draw the results of deterioration in marriage life and to examine how a broken relationship explicitly shakes the foundation of a family. A Married Woman and Custody of Manju Kapur are excellent example of a broken marriage and its outcomes in the community.