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Abstract In India, the twenty-first century has brought in its wake various transformations in cultural, political, religious, economic and social domains as the impact of modernity and globalization is manifested. But, these changes have also led the generation to follow the wrong doings which has led into trouble of their own alongwith the family members and the society. Modernity and globalization impact all other nation as well, the process of �diffusion, homogenization and integration� (Sivaramakrishnan and Agarwal 8) via the merging of regional and national boundaries. Hence, each and every individual in India today, has become �the subject� of development and modernization in danger of reaching the destination of erasing the cultural and regional boundaries, at the micro level. Indian literature plays an important role in creating an awareness of the necessity of transformations and emphasizes the cause and consequences, in different contexts, of these transitions. It also shows how these changes affect an individual. As a part of such an endeavour, this paper attempts to discuss the transformation of religious and regional identities of the orthodox Brahmin communities in India, and the disadvantages of the changes with the focus on Anita Nair�s Ladies Coupe This paper analyses on the important character of the novel, Akhila, a spinster, to evince the extrication of women from their entanglement in conventional roles and to what extent she has changed her personality. The narrative of this novel depicts how Akhila being born in a traditional orthodox Brahmin family dismantle and subvert the firmly established conservative brahminical values, ethics and customs to converge with the changing egalitarian modern society of India but had led herself into being a prostitute which is a curse to herself being born in a Brahmin family.