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This compendium of 19 papers attempts to provide deep insight into the life and works of Chetan Bhagat, one of the best-selling English novelists of India. It critically analyses the society and popular culture, state of corruption, humour, the present-day dynamics of male-female relationship, cultural confluence, the human conditions in info-tech society, and the ethics of sex, marriage and morality as depicted in the novels of Chetan Bhagat.
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Winner of Booker Prize 2006, Kiran Desai is one of the most distinguished Indian English novelists who launched her literary career with the publication of Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard. She achieved eminence with the publication of her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss. It is an astonishing novel that tells parallel stories set in Kalimpong and New York. Briskly paced, the novel ricochets between the third world and the first, and explores issues of ...
Ever since its publication in 1980, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has been regarded by critics and scholars a literary masterpiece. A trail-blazing work in many respects, it broke new ground in fiction and set an innovative trend for a whole generation of creative writers. It infused new life into the Indian English novel and elevated its art from the mundane to the magical. The present book, divided into two major sections, is a serious attempt at ...
Doris Lessing's classic work The Golden Notebook (1962) is a pioneering work of feminist consciousness. The book was hailed as the manifesto of the feminist movement; it deeply influenced the imagination and attitude of an entire generation of women. With its unconventional form that reflects a fractured time and a fragmented consciousness, it blends literature, politics, love and a candid discussion of female sexuality. The present book, divided into two ...