Panorama of Indian Writing in English
Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Toru Dutt’s poetry/Mallikarjun Patil. 2. Aurobindo’s concepts of realization of God/G. Rajasekaran. 3. The mysticism of Tagore’s Gitanjali/Adwait Chaitanya. 4. Sarojini Naidu’s poetry: an evergreen plant of Vedantic fruit and poetic fragrance/Amar Nath Prasad. 5. The concern for social justice in the novels of Mulk Raj Anand/P.K. Singh. 6. Mulk Raj Anand’s untouchable: An indelible problem: untouchability/Jaya Srivastava. 7. British characters in Jhabvala’s fiction/R. Bhagwan Singh. 8. Fire on the mountain -- a psycho-analytical study/Dalip Kumar Khetarpal. 9. The journey from silence to eloquence in Shashi Deshpande’s that long silence/Shraddha Dubey. 10. Women in the novels of Shashi Deshpande -- liberation on the psychic realm of experience/Nisha Singh. 11. The God of Small Things -- Velutha, a tragic figure/Madhu Bala Saxena. 12. Women in Manju Kapoor’s difficult daughter a feminist perspective/Ruby Milhoutra. 13. Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss: a study in themes of rootlesseness, alienation and death/Gulrez Roshan Rehman. 14. A critical evaluation of sense of alienation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Middleman and Other Stories/Meenu Dubey. 15. Stronger women: women through partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Icecandyman and Yashpal’s Jhootha Sach/Jaya Kapoor. 16. Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal: Machinations of power and effects of oppression/Priya Bajaj. 17. Social realism in Mahesh Dattani’s Where There’s a Will/Amar Nath Prasad and Pramod Kumar Singh. 18. Zeitgeist - The world of Chetan Bhagat/Sunitha S.C. 19. Expedition into the realms of life: a critique of Basavaraj Naikar’s short stories/Madhavi Nikam. 20. Feminism: an oasis of hope in the desert of despondency (with special reference to India/Kalyani Dixit. 21. The Philomela and Procne myths -- reexamined through the feminist social context in India/Madhu Kapoor. Index.
Panorama of Indian Writing in English is a modest endeavour to assess the various aspects of Indian writing in English. Almost all the chief writers of Indian writing in English have been included in this anthology and the contributors who hail form different parts o India have tried their best to evaluate a number of writers. The writers included in this book are Torru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, R.N. Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapoor, Kiran Desai, Bharti Mukherjee, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Chetan Bhagat, B.S. Naikar and Several other women writers in English.
The book will certainly slake the thirst of a number of students, teachers and those research scholars who want to enhance their knowledge about Indian writers in English.
Panorama of Indian Writing in English is a modest endeavour to assess the various aspects of Indian writing in English. Almost all the chief writers of Indian writing in English have been included in this anthology and the contributors who hail form different parts o India have tried their best to evaluate a number of writers. The writers included in this book are Torru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, R.N. Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapoor, Kiran Desai, Bharti Mukherjee, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Chetan Bhagat, B.S. Naikar and Several other women writers in English.
The book will certainly slake the thirst of a number of students, teachers and those research scholars who want to enhance their knowledge about Indian writers in English.
