The essays in this anthology focus on many aspects of Indian Fiction in English. It seeks to probe discuss and analyse the issues arising out of the novels and offers deep insight to the readers. Important novelists covered in the volume are R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Geeta Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Kavery Nambisan, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy.
Contents: Preface. 1. Is Mulk Raj Anand’s untrouchable dirty/Ramesh K. ...
Parsees have made a signal contribution to the canon of postcolonial fiction. They fall into two categories: expatriates and stay-at-home writers. Steeped in the rich Zoroastrian myths and legends, young promising Parsee novelists like Firdaus Kanga, Rohinto Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ardashir Vakil and Boman Desai use English as an instrument of self-assertion. At the same time, they are not blind to the challenges confronting the miniscule community ...