Studies in Modern Indian English Novels

Contents: Preface. 1. Prologue. 2. The Company of Women: A Fictional Pornography in Disguise. 3. The Blue Bedspread: A Fiction of distorted relations. 4. If you are Afraid of Heights: Imposed Gloominess in self. 5. The Romantics: Conflict of a youth caught in His Cobweb of Unfulfilled ambition. 6. The ground beneath her feet; Musical world of love and fantasy. 7. Five point someone what not to do at IIT: A Candid tale of three friends. 8. One Night at the call centre: A Tale of darkness due to endless struggle in life. 9. The three mistakes of My Life: A real story of Mission, Obsession and sacrifice. 10. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: Journey of a Man from Innocence to complexity. 11. Epilogue. Bibliography.

The book throws lights on some of the important Indian novelists writing in English in the last two decades. Novelists like Salman Rushdie, Kushwant Singh, Raj Kamal Jha, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat and Aravind Adiga have shown extraordinary talent in handling of some modern thematic patterns and stylistic devices. They artistically contribute in the journey of Indian writing in English which is now in the state of mainstream. This book unfolds some of the features of their writings in modern perspectives with more help of their texts. (Jacket)