Unveiling New Vistas : A Critique on Indian English Fiction

Contents: Preface. 1. Tagore’s Views on Women’s Education and empowerment expressed through his articles, novels and short-stories/Ram Sharma. 2. Resolving Caste conflicts in the novels of Mulk Raj Anand and chaduranga/D.R. Komala. 3. History, Myth and Realism in Raja Rao’s kanthapura/Bhagabat Nayak. 4. A River with three Banks : A Search for peace and harmony/S.K. Navin. 5. Kamala Markandays’s A Handful of Rice: A Critical Study/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 6. Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali: A Survival Strategy/A. Usha. 7. The Theme of Partition in Chaman Nahal’s  Azadi/V. Pala Prasada Rao. 8. Western Women’s Sexual Hunger/J. Samuel Kirubhahar. 9. Beware of Fires on the Mountain/P. Gopichand and Nagasuseels. 10. Ambivalent attitude of Indian woman in Shashi Desphande’s That Long Silence/Ashish Gupta. 11. Self Identity in the select novels of Shashi Deshpande/K. Balamurugan and G. Selva Nayaki. 12. A Chartered Odyssey in Pursuit of sexual promiscuity, defeat of virility and conjugal felicity in the novels of Arjun Joshi/S. Kanakaraj A. Mohankumar, J. Samuel Kirubahar and A.K. Muthusamy. 13. Portrayal of women in the short stories of Bharati Mukherjee/Ram Sharma. 14. In An Antique Land: An Anthropoligical Study/Keyur Parekh. 15. Fact and Fiction in Amitav Ghosh’s the Culcutta chromosome/Muktha Manoj.  16. Lajja: A voice from the Margin/Somali Gupta. 17. Feminist consciousness: A Study of Mizra Hadi Ruswa’s Umrao Jaan Ada/Zarrien Zehra Rizwi. 18. Three Cheers to Indian Youth: A Study of the three mistakes of My Life/S. Sayiram. 19. Aravind Adiga’s The While Tiger- A Mirror of Delhli Life/Shaleen Kumar Singh. 20. Interview with Prof. S. Murali/T.S. Chandra Mouli. Index.

“From Rabindranath Tagore to Aravind Adiga and Chetan Bhagat many talented, versatile writers have extended a rare splendour and graceful stature to Indian English fiction, this genre has gone through different stages of evolutionary process, inviting inspired insights and receiving critical accolade. Multi-layered themes, multicultural approaches, incessant experiments with expressions lend a rare aura to the exquisite works of master craftsmen.

This volume showcases various aspects of Indian English fiction spread over a period of more than one hundred years. There are nineteen papers highlighting salient features of a variety of fiction. An interview with an eminent Professor known for his poetic, artistic and critical productivity enriches this endeavour with his erudite, pragmatic observations offering new insights. It is hoped that this volume finds favour with all lovers of Indian English fiction.”