Recent Indian Literature in English: A Cultural Perspective

Mithilesh K. Pandey (b. 1967) holds an M.A. (English) degree and a Doctorate from Banaras Hindu University beside a P.G.C.T.E. from C.I.E.F.L., Hyderabad; has authored The Poetry of Donald Davie and Studies in Contemporary Literature and has also edited contemporary Indian Literature in English. A Humanistic Perspective, Recent Indian Literature in English: A Cultural Perspective and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Critical Spectrum has published scores of research articles on major contemporary British, American and Indian writers; has attended International conferences in India and abroad and chaired the session “New Communications” at the XXII International Congress of FILLM, Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok in August 2002; is supervising several doctoral dissertations at present. Dr. Pandey is Reader and Head, Department of English at Hindu Post-graduate College (Purvanchal University) Zamania, Ghazipur, U.P. INDIA.