Contents: Preface. 1. Krishna-motif in the poetry of Kamala Das/Niranjan Mohanty. 2. Bildungsromans as cite for interrogation of female space a comparative study of Munro and Kamala Das/V. Sam Sahayam. 3. 'For so he sees the female image': critiquing the male Gaze in the poems of Nissim Ezekiel/Satapa Chaudhuri. 4. Tharoor's Riot: a study in the myth of fall/G.D. Barche. 5. Detachment and its meaning in Arun Joshi's The Foreigner/K. Ratna Shiela Mani. 6. Scrutinising Anurag Mathur's The Inscrutable Americans/Anup C. Nair. 7. Occidental quest for oriental spiritualism in Jhabvala's three continents and Desai's journey to Ithaca/Anita Myles. 8. Writing from the margins: a study of Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence/Ram Sharma. 9. Bifocal visioning of the self: Jhumpa Lahiri's cultural dialogics/Joya Chakravorty. 10. Zoroastrian world view in Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey/Sanjeev Kumar Bali. 11. The impact of Gandhian ideology on Indian English fiction/Alka Saxena. 12. The colonial encounter: a critical response to Basavaraj Naikar's The sun behind the cloud/S. John Peter Joseph. 13. Struggle for honour and freedom in The Sun Behind the Cloud/S.G. Vaidya. 14. Dina Mehta's brides are not for burning a stageworthy play/S. Ramaswamy. 15. Cracks in the wall: Dina Mehta's Brides are not for burning as a protest play/V.L.V.N. Narendra Kumar. 16. The emergence of the short story in Indian English writing/Kamal Mehta. 17. Thematic concerns in post-independence women short story writes/Krishna Daiya. 18. Society and the individual in the story of Basavaraj Naikar/O.P. Mehta.