Manju Kapur

May 18, 2024 | indianexpress.com | Manju Kapur

I flip through the New Selected Stories to remind me of how this writer once spoke to me. I reread the first story, ‘The Love of a Good Woman’, reprinted from her 1998 eponymous volume. If anything, I admire it more than I did before. This is the work of a very skilled writer, a writer whose craft is honed to perfection. It’s not showy, it does not call attention to itself, it’s a clear prism between the author and the reader.

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Manju Kapur |Shuma Raha |Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas

Manju Kapur’s latest novel, The Gallery, is an exploration of the lives of women: their inclinations and desires and the compromises they often make owing to their belief that this is the best that they can get out of their lives. But in that journey of manifold submissions and capitulations, they may yet find the space to stake a claim for power and grace and a voice of their own.

Dec 25, 2023 | rediff.com | Manju Kapur

It had meant nothing but moments of intimacy, sweet but transient moments. An intriguing excerpt from Manju Kapur's new novel The Gallery. She had met him in the first month of college. Join me for coffee? Anthony D'Souza, second year, debater, actor, poet, mathematician, who wouldn't join him for coffee? He led her towards the university café. 'You wear no rings,' he said as he held her hand. 'My fingers itch from the sweat. Though my mother is always after me to wear jewellery.

Nov 7, 2023 | scroll.in | Manju Kapur

Minal had first left the city after school, when excellent marks and a fortunate impression at an interview assured her a place at St Stephen’s, the college to die for. She would be sharing accommodation with six other girls in one of the boarding houses near the university. The whole family insisted on coming to drop her, brothers, sisters-in-law, mother. It was love being demonstrated. And to fight against love was to be ungrateful.