Disintegration of Marriages in Manju Kapur’...

Disintegration of Marriages in Manju Kapur’s Custody

Author Name : Ms. Roohi Zafar, Dr. Mirza Sultan Baig

ABSTRACT

Custody (2011) is Manju Kapur’s fifth novel. The novel deals with theme of the failure of marriages resulting into a battle for the custody of children.This also presents the husband and wife conflict for the custody of children and the Indian Judicial system.This novel is largely set in the thriving, upper-middle-class colonies of Delhi in the mid 90s, against the backdrop of the initial surge of foreign investment in India. It is another absorbing story in Kapur's series of popular novels on modem urban Indian middle class life and its travails.Shagun leaves her settled married life for her career. Kapur evaluated the destitution of modern life as the story encircle around Raman and Shagun who are couple along with fascinating Ashok Khanna, Raman’s boss and Ishitha, a divorcee who suffers with infertility. She focused brilliantly on two significant things in her novel Custody: Infidelity by Shagun and Infertility by Ishitha.The protagonists of Custody quite naturally have materialistic pursuit.

Keywords: Custody, Judicial system, Infertility, Infidelity, travail.