Through novels, society can be viewed, which can give an insight into its culture. Wakefulness of a new generation, utterly different in opinions and mindsets from that of the preceding one, is the trademark of the Indian English novels that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century. Manju Kapur is one among the present day writers like Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Anita Nair, and Jhumpa Lahiri have been crowned with literary glory by winning many awards. The tribulations of the family and marital relationships occur, on the one hand, out of the lack of ability of the married ones to deal with the unexpected state of affairs and on the other, out of the inability of the married women to beget children for the continuance of the ancestry of the forefathers of the family.