During the seventy years of its effective history Indian writing in English crossed many miles stones and has come to be finally accepted as a major literature of the world. Having won almost every important literary Prize in the recent few years, I we has become immensely popular with the common international readers and critics alike. If its being prescribed for study in universities across the world is any indication, the place of I we in the canon is secure forever. This anthology of critical articles attempts to evaluate some of the major Indian poets and novelists and their influential works from refreshingly new perspectives - historical, socio-economic, existential, mythological, philosophical-religious and Environmental. The writers studied here include Anand, Narayan, Raja Rao, malgonkar, Bhattacharya, Joshi, Desai, mark an day a, Sahgal, Ezekiel and Ramanujan. An interesting addition to this volume are a couple of articles on the diaspora writers such Rohinton Mistry and the South African Indian poets and novelists. It is hoped that this book will prove itself highly useful to all who are seriously interested in Indian writing in English. During the seventy years of its effective history Indian writing in English crossed many miles stones and has come to be finally accepted as a major literature of the world. Having won almost every important literary Prize in the recent few years, I we has become immensely popular with the common international readers and critics alike. If its being prescribed for study in universities across the world is any indication, the place of I we in the canon is secure forever. This anthology of critical articles attempts to evaluate some of the major Indian poets and novelists and their influential works from refreshingly new perspectives - historical, socio-economic, existential, mythological, philosophical-religious and Environmental. The writers studied here include Anand, Narayan, Raja Rao, malgonkar, Bhattacharya, Joshi, Desai, mark an day a, Sahgal, Ezekiel and Ramanujan. An interesting addition to this volume are a couple of articles on the diaspora writers such Rohinton Mistry and the South African Indian poets and novelists. It is hoped that this book will prove itself highly useful to all who are seriously interested in Indian writing in English.
