Current Indian Writing in English : Essays and Interviews
Contents: Preface. Fiction: 1. A web of langue and Parole in Amitav Ghosh\'s The Hungry Tide/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 2. Exile as Leitmotif in Amitav Ghosh\'s The Glass Palace/Kanwar Dinesh Singh. 3. Rukmani as an epitome of Indian womanhood: a critical consideration of Kamala Markandaya\'s Nectar in a Sieve/S. John Peter Joseph. 4. Music as a metaphor: a study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni\'s Queen of Dreams/Sumeet Brar. 5. Return to the roots: a study of the select short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri/V. Ranjani and N. Rama Krishna. 6. Marriage of educated women in Manju Kapur\'s A Married woman/D. Murali Manohar. 7. Treatment of the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things/O.P. Dwivedi. 8. Women at the crossroads: reassessing Shobha De\'s Snapshots and Second Thoughts/Anita Myles. Poetry: 9. The liberating Force of Ruskin Bond\'s poetry/Swapan K. Banerjee. 10. Death in Shiv K. Kumar\'s poetry/Anshu Sharma. Drama: 11. Love, sacrifice and Ecstasy: a study of Girish Karnad\'s naga-Mandala/Tanushree Nayak. Interviews: 12. Indian writing in English : A conversation with Christopher Rollason and Ludmila Volna/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 13. A Criticism of life: an interview with the scholar - poet A.N. Dwivedi/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 14. Intimate aspects of life : An Interview with Rabindra Kumar Swain/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 15. Colouring of Human passion: An interview with R.K. Singh/Arbind Kumar Choudhary. 16. An appealing poetic expression: an interview with Kanwar Dinesh Singh/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 17. The poetic rendezvous: an interview with Smita Agarwal/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 18. Human society as the Grist to the ever grinding mill of poet\'s imagination an interview with P. Raja/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 19. Poetry of immense Grief: an interview with Kamala Kapur/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 20. Fusion of journalism and poetry: an interview with Mamang Dai/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. Index.
"The present book is a collection of essays/papers that provide critical insights into the significant developments Indian English writing has made in the recent years. Besides, this book includes exclusive interviews with some of the finest contemporary Indian English poets and with critics on the current scenario of the Indian writing in English. The comments of critics Christopher Rollason and Ludmila Volna on the Contemporary Indian English writing are remarkable.
Since most of the aforementioned writers have now been incorporated in the syllabi of English literature in several of Indian Universities, the present book is extremely useful for both students and teachers of English and researchers in the field of Indian English literature."
