Kiran Desai and Her Fictional World

Neeru Tandon did her M.A., LL.B., from Kanpur University. She has topped in her LL.B. Exams and won Gold Medal for it. She obtained her Ph.D. in India-English Literature in 191. Her research papers form part of several anthologies as independent chapters and have also appeared in several reputed journals. Her area of interest includes contemporary fiction-mainly Indo-Anglian, Afro-American, and Canadian Women Writers' writings in English. Presently, she is a Senior Reader at the Postgraduate Department of English, V.S.S.D. College, Kanpur. Women literature is an area in which she is carrying out her postdoctoral research work (D.Litt). She is has experience of more than eighteen years of teaching postgraduate students. She is guiding research scholars in various fields like Parsi fiction, Canadian fiction, Afro-American fiction and Indian-writing in English. Founder Secretary of Kanpur University Association for English-Studies, Dr. Tandon has several publications to her credit, which include critical commentary on R.N. Tagore's Muktadhara, Anita Desai's In Custody, and Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable.