Contents: Preface. 1. Tagore', fruit gathering: a work of symbolic exuberances/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Rabindranath Tagore: a critical overview of his poetic achievements/S.K. Paul. 3. The sources of Sri Aurobindo's poetry and philosophy/T.K. Basu. 4. Kamala Das' feminist perspective/Tanseem Anjum. 5. Awakening "Mother" India the Writings of Kamala Das: A Clarion call to empower the passive women in post-colonial India/Devika M.P. 6. In the shackles of convention and destiny: women in the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra/Neha Misra. 7. The Chaos of experience in the poetry of K.N. Daruwalla/Punita Jha. 8. An introduction to women and women writing in English/S. Prasanna Sree. 9. Silent suffering and agony in Mulk Raj Anand's untouchable/Shailaja B. Wadikar. 10. The short stories of Mulk Raj Anand and R.K. Narayan/K. Sandhya. 11. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's To Whom She Will/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 12. Sumita and Suruchi vis-a-vis Satyajitism: a study of Shadow from Ladakh/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma'. 13. Manohar Malgonkar's attitude to art and life/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 14. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's The Nowhere Man/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 15. The inner confrontations in the works of Anita Desai/Anita Singh. 16. Emerging feminism in The Dark Holds no Terrors and The God of Small Things/Rahmat Jahan. 17. Coprophilia, carnography, Marxism, feminism in The God of Small Things/R.S. Sharma and S.B. Talwar. 18. Ruskin bond and his vision of life/Norah Nivedita Shaw. 19. Maturity of Mnemonic in The Shadow Lines/Rajiv K. Mallik. 20. A feminist reading of Anita Nair's Mistress/Girija Nambiar.
"Indian Writing in English is flourishing and blossoming by leaps and bounds in both quality and quantity. For the last few years writers of India have been registering their name and fame in the field of English literature not only in our country but also in every nook and corner of the world.
Writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur and a host of several other writers have earned several international accolades. The present book which is a collection of scholarly critical papers and articles deals with almost all the major authors of Indian writing in English." (jacket)
