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Though winner of several awards for his novels, Amitav Ghosh has not received the attention that he so well deserves. This volume attempts to fill this Lacuna in critical appreciation of his novels. He has elicited extreme responses of infinite variety. This book attempts to examine the multiple layers of meaning, the complex narrative technique, the continuous time-space shifts, the motifs and metaphors, history and subversion of history, the personal and the ...
The filming of Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan recently once again aroused interest in Singh’s novels. This also led to penguin’s collected works of Khushwant Singh on the one hand and on the other the writer thought of attempting one more novel The Company of Women (1999). This new interest in his literary works and his popular image of a writer of joke books attracted literary-stock taking. This volume on Singh attempts to critically examine ...