Contents: 1. Humanism in R.N. Tagore, Md. Iqbal and Sri Aurobindo/T.K. Basu. 2. Re-interpretation of myth in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri/Ratri Roy. 3. The quest for female identity in the poems of Kamala Das/Auroonima Sinha. 4. Kamala Dass: her attempt to Awaken "Mother India"/Devika M.P. 5. Nissim Ezekiel and his humanism/Rajiv K. Mallik. 6. The language of Nissim Ezekiel/Syed Md. Refique Azam. 7. ... the anguished face....": a note of suffering in the poetry of Shiv K. Kumar/D.C. Chambial. 8. Earth motif in Charu Sheel Singh's creation Cocktail and pearl S. Buck's The good earth: a comparative study/Mahendra Singh. 9. R.K. Narayan's Novels: a note on language and style/R.A. Singh. 10. Kajoli and Mohini: a study of so many hungers and music for Mohini/Jitendra Prasad Singh 'Padma. 11. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The nature of passion/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 12. The princes: an epitaph for the princely India/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 13. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 14. That long silence: an elucidation/S. Prasanna Sree. 15. A note of hopefulness in the fictions of Arun Joshi/Prabhat Kumar Singh. 16. The east and the west in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Usha Mahadevan. 17. Arundhati Roy and her works: a bird's eye view/Amar Nath Prasad. 18. Probing the inner self: Jhumpa Lahiri/Saloni Prasad. 19. The novels of Kiran Desai: a critical study/Sunita Sinha. Index.