This paper reflects on the female character's involvement in religious controversy. Manju Kapur, an Indian Woman novelist furnish examples of a whole range of attitude towards the importance of tradition in her novels. Her female protagonists are mostly educated, aspiring individuals caged within the limit of a conservative society. Their education leads them to independent thinking for which their family and society become intolerant of them. Manju Kapur in her novels presents women who try to establish their own identity. A close study of Manju Kapur's novels projects the view that when an Indian woman inspite of her education, status and intelligence, tries to marry according to her own choice, is likely to spoil her prospects in both the worlds namely the life at her mother's home and at her husband's home. She revolts the former and hopes to embrace the latter