A Spectrum of Indian Fiction in English
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Anita Desais clear light of day: a study/T.S. Chandra Mouli and P. Indrani. 2. A peep into Anita Desais custody/Dalip Kumar Khetarpal. 3. Delineation of women characters in the short stories of Shashi Deshpande/K. Suneetha Reddy. 4. The dynamics of human and environmental concerns in the hungry tide/Ratnagiri Usha. 5. The emergence of an Independent woman in Anita Nairs Ladies coupe/R. Annie Karunya. 6. Entering the world of R.K. Narayan: a space problematising identity/Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 7. Countering violence and factual tampering: alternative history in Sahgals rich like us/Dwijen Sharma. 8. Desire of the moth for the star: quest for organic living in Shashi Deshpandes the intrusion and other stories/Hemang Desai. 9. Literary perceptions form non literary Professions: contemporary Indian fiction/I.S.V. Manjula. 10. Theme of feminism in Manju Kapurs difficult daughters/Monica Singh. 11. Identity and cultural crisis of protagonists in Githa Hariharans The Thousand faces of Night and Bharati Mukherjees wife/P. Padmini and S.K. Sudha. 12. Conflicting selves in Shashi Deshpandes that long silence/Purnima Gupta. 13. Teaching English through R.K. Narayans Swami and friends/Raja Eshwar. 14. Womans emancipation and marriage in R.K. Naryans novels/Sarika Dubey. 15. Subaltern predicament in the recent Indian English fiction: a study of Aravind Adigas The White Tiger and Vikram Swarups slumdog Millionaire/A.J. Sebastian sdb. 16. Mulk Raj Anands untouchable: a Dalit perspective/Sunitha Srinivas C. 17. Being and becoming: Saru Shashi Deshpandes the Dark holds no terrors/D. Ebina Cordelia. 18. Dalit pride and black suffering in Arundati Roys the God of small things/Hyacinth Pink. 19. Quest for self: a study of Jasmine in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine/Akilad D. 20. Woman and class dynamics in Rupa Bajwas the Sari shop/Daisy. 21. Plurality of existence: the treatment of women men and children in the novels of Shobha de/N.K. Neb. 22. Arundhati Roys novel The God of Small Things: her Dalit consciousness/Poonam Pandey. 23. Vedanta and Raja Raos the Chessmaster and his moves/R. Subramony. 24. Depiction of domestic life love and violence in expatriates in Jhumpa Lahiris novel the Namesake/T. Sasikanth Reddy. 25. When cupids arrows fail an appraisal of Anita Desais select novels/V. Sunitha. 26. Manju Kapurs difficult daughters: mission for mental thirst and physical lust/Satendra Kumar. 27. Wo e men exploited/T. Sree Latha.
The rise and fall of share markets the rise and fall of bullion market the rise and fall in the prices of commodities are carefully observed and talked of by financial experts as well as the man in the street. Kidnaps murders acid attacks are on the rise. The fall in human values though not presented meticulously as the rise and fall in financial matters is a common subject for scholars businessmen teachers politicians etc.
But the fall in human values affects our society and breed many disorders in our life. The youth often fail to understand the importance of life and the beauty in life. To the youth life is a bag of garbage which can be disposed off at any time without second thought. The old feel that they are outcasts in the society and every minute is miserable for them. With icy looks they count their days in old age homes. Poetry Prose Fiction Drama One Act plays are being created by a number of wonderful masters. As teachers readers professors and scholars of literature let us come together and retrospect the human values reflected in the Indian fiction in English. (jacket)
