In consonance with the wishes of the writers of the SAARC region, expressed through numerous conferences, workshops, seminars, as also through inter-personal interactions, the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature has brought out this volume of representative short stories of Writers form the ‘seven sister’ countries comprising the SAARC region. While retaining their distinctive local colour and flavour, these stories embody certain common themes and ...
Ruth Jhabvala's tryst with India and how it works itself out in her fiction has been a matter of critical concern for long. But barring occasional heretical voices, the established critical canon has always treated her as 'an adopted daughter of India' and her work as part of the Indian-English corpus of writing. Lately, working from the 'orientalist' perspective, critics have started exploring her work as a literary embodiment of post-colonial consciousness. ...