Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Manju Kapur

Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.
Known for:
- Difficult daughters (1998)
- Custody (2011)
- The Immigrant (2008)
- A Married Woman (2002)
- Brothers: A Novel (2016)