Interventions Indian Writing in English

"Placing Indian writing in a critical setting, through discussions in Introduction and short textual analyses, this book makes available to the reader a few texts (short stories and poems) chosen for their representative nature, sharp creative stance and provocative intent. The range of the texts is indeed wide from the nineteenth century to the early years of our own twenty-first century. Ridden with controversy that refuses to die and debated intensely, the issues captured in the literary pieces include manipulative and cynical British Raj, the infamous Emergency regime of the nineteen seventies, the rot witnessed in India in the Reforms phase, being an Indian away from the country's shores, pressures of living as a woman or tribal, sense of selfhood, poverty, misery, etc. through English that is characterised as 'Indian English! all these coming The short stories of Mulk Raj Anand, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry and Shashi Deshpande, Arup Kumar Datta and the poems of Henry Louis Derozio, Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Kamala Das and Robin S. Ngangom included in this volume illuminate India's social scene in their own independent style and offer a paradigm of reaffirmed ideals. The short essays accompanying the texts are analytical and have a sharp focus. The volume offers rich diversity of visions, opinions and outlooks. Anand Prakash taught English Literature in Delhi University till retirement in 2007. He has published books of criticism in English and Hindi. Currently, he is editing Journal of Drama Studies' (JDS) an international journal in English, and the Hindi magazine Yug Paribodh'."