Great Indian Writers of English : A Critical Evaluation

Contents: Preface. 1. Sri Aurobindo\'s Savitri: a fusion of feeling and form/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Sri Aurobindo\'s concept of poetry/Adwait Chaitanya. 3. The image of new woman in Mulk Raj Anand\'s Gauri/Basavaraj Naikar. 4. Social realism in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala\'s get ready for battle/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 5. Cultural collision in Rushdie\'s East, West/J. Jothi Lakshmi and T.S. Ramesh. 6. Treatment of identity crisis and Indianness in Shobha De\'s the Bindi/Anand Atikant. 7. Anita Desai: The Novelist extraordinary/Kumar Moti and Shyam Mohan Sahi. 8. The dark holds no terrors: a woman\'s search for refuge/Jaya Srivastava. 9. Familial and female relationships in the Novella: ships that pass by Shashi Deshpande/Suresh U. Dhoke. 10. The trauma of partition in Azadi/Basavaraj Naikar..... Great Indian Writers of English: A critical Evaluation is an anthology of critical articles contributed by different experts, teachers and research scholars hailing from the different corners of India. It contains articles on the great Indian writers of English i.e. Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, R.P. Jhabvala Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Chaman Nahal, Shobha De, Manju Kapur, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Arundhati Roy, Upamanyu Chatterjee and Kiran Desai. All the papers are highly informative and the critical thought and opinions have been presented very lucidly, elegantly and wisely. (jacket)