The Gallery

<p><i>THE GALLERY</i> pursues the question of what it takes for a woman to stand up for herself through the intertwined lives of Minal and Ellora Sahni wife and daughter of a successful New Delhi lawyer and Maitrye and Tashi wife<br>and daughter of the office peon at the Sahni law practice. In her new novel Manju Kapur brings together themes of independence identity and womanhood by focusing on a set of principal characters who are connected through work and physical proximity yet separated by class and power.<br><br>As the women navigate their own desires they are forced to re-examine marriage as well as to consider the role of art as property value and self-expression. The titular gallery that Minal opens becomes a powerful symbol of both autonomy and constraint.<br><br>Set in Delhi and Nepal<i> The Gallery</i> surveys the lives of two families over three decades becoming in the process an exploration of sexual freedom and the world of art.</p>