This book contains twenty essays on established Indian writers in English as well as on new authors. Issues such as decolonization and challenges before the Indian critic in English have been discussed with a new angle of vision. The book contains perceptive and thought-provoking essays on R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Ruskin Bond, K.A. Abbas, Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar and A.K. Ramanujan among others. There is no doubt that this book will prove useful to students, teachers and scholars in Indian Universities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Nandan Sinha
Ravi Nandan Sinha, Reader and Head, Department of English, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi has been teaching for twenty-five years. He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Ranchi. He is a poet, literary critic and translator. His poetry and literary criticism have been published in reputed journals of India as well as those of U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Korea and so on. His poetry has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese. He has translated Hindi poetry into English. His translation of Mahendra Bhatnagar’s poetry has recently been published under the title ‘Exuberance and Other Poems’ from Delhi. He has nine books and over forty scholarly papers to his credit. Since 1987, he has been the Editor of The Quest, an established Indian journal devoted to Indian writing in English.
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