Readings In Indo-Anglian Literature Prospective And Retrospective (In 3 Vols.)

The Canvas of Indo-English creative writing is sought to be profiled in this collection. The range from Sarojini Naidu and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad Chaudhari and Raja Rao and on to the Post-Independence flowering of the genre – R.K. Narayan, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai to the New Generation and the New Idiom of Rushdie, Seth, Ghosh and others is indeed breathtaking, sometimes even wondrous. The rich contribution of this genre of writing, in a second or borrowed language but nonetheless an original idiom, is already beginning to make its presence felt. Schools and colleges have arrived at a heady mix of English writing by Indians and Other Nationals. Literary criticism has its ebb and flow and publishing too tries to keep pace.