Contemporary Indian Writing in English: Critical Perceptions, Vol. II
Contents: 1. Representations of princely India in Indian English novels/Anand Mahanand. 2. Women on top: a study of feministic consciousness of contemporary women novelists/Anita Ghosh. 3. Exploring Indian history: Salman Rushdie\'s Midnight\'s children/Savita Goel. 4. Perennial evolution from the imaginary to \'The Symbolic\': a Lacanian reading of Vikarm Seth\'s an equal music/Nidhi Tiwari. 5. Multiculturalism, magic realism, quest and discovery: raison d\'etre in the major novels of Amitav Ghosh/Ketaki Datta. 6. Upamanyu Chatterjee\'s English, August as a post-colonial save-the nation exhortation/K.C. Mishra. 7. Basavaraj Naikar\'s the thief of Nagarahalli and other stories: an ethical perspective/Bhagabat Nayak. 8. The sun behind the cloud: a typical Indian historical novel/Jibesh Bhattacharya. 9. Conflict between tradition and modernity in Ashapurna Debi\'s Subarnalata/D.B. Naik. 10. Feminism in Shashi Deshpande\'s novels/S.P. Swain. 11. The new woman in Shobha De\'s socialite evenings/Sangeeta Yadav. 12. Inner world of a film star: Shobha De\'s starry nights/Sheela Rani Khare. 13. A tempting trap: Manju Kapur\'s: A Married woman/Alka Singh. 14. Henri Bergson\'s philosophic ideas and Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things/Partha Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 15. The erotic scenes in Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things/Mithilesh K. Pandey. 16. Liberating women: a study of Anees Jung\'s breaking the silence/Tapati Lahiri. 17. Post-colonism and Chitra Banerjee\'s Sister of My Heart/C.N. Eswari. 18. Shashi Tharoor\'s riot: a showcase of multiple perspectives/Meenakshi Raman. 19. Seeds of communal violence: a note on David Davidar\'s The House of Blue Mangoes/Rita Joshi. 20. Ecology and identity crisis in Rohinton mistry\'s fiction/C.C. Mishra. 21. Community versus nation: conflict in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry/Rita Joshi. 22. Problems of identity: a study of Bharati Mukherjee\'s desirable daughters/S.P. Swain. 23. Quest for identity in Bharati Mukherjee\'s desirable daughters/Bhagabat Nayak. 24. Bond without bondage: Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri/Jaydeep Sarangi. 25. The namesake: the physiology of unruly emotions/Madhoo Kamra and Sumiparna Maiti. 26. Kavery Nambisan the truth (almost) about Bharat/Mohammed Zaheer Basha. 27. Poet P. Lal : His Mind and His Art/A.J. Sebastian Sdb. 28. The defining perspective in the poetry of Shiv K. Kumar/Lemtila Alinger. 29. The man, the mistress, the will: the motifs in Mahesh Dattani\'s where there is a will/A.K. Vishnu. 30. Aesthetic sensibility in expatriate writing with reference to Sasthi Brata and V.S. Naipaul/Meenakshi Hariharan.
