Indian fiction in English witnessed a spurt in realist novels in the ’80s and ’90s. Realism came to an end in European fiction at the close of the 19th century, but in the Indian scenario, we witnessed its rebirth in the fiction of Mulk Raj Anand, R K Narayan, Raja Rao and many other stalwarts. The nascent Indian society has been suffering from many social injustices and the creative mind of the writers reacted sympathetically to the woes of the downtrodden and the marginalized. In the fictional works of Vikram Seth, Manju Kapur, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy and in many of our new generation writers, realism has made a comeback with an added vigor and vitality. Manju Kapur and Aravind Adiga handle realism with its classical characteristics and their writings are like a mirror held against the uncomfortable realities of Indian society. Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters explores the Indian society with all its woes and imperfections and reminds us that patriarchal hegemony is the root cause of its fair sex’s unending subjugation. Aravind Adiga fictionalizes the injustices meted out to its marginalized and explicitly narrates us the tentacles of exploitation that encapsulate Indian society in his The White Tiger. This paper tries to analyze features of realism in the above novels with special emphasis on the social realities reflected in them.