Glorious Trends : Indian Writings, Films and Translation

Contents: Editorial note. 1. Slumdog Millionaire: an appraisal of the fiction and the film/A.J. Sebastian sdb. 2. The Desi Bridget Jones: reflections on Indian chick lit/Sonali Agarwal. 3. The magic charm of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories: an evaluation/K.V. Dominic. 4. A treatise on good governance: Fall of Kalyana/T.S. Chandra Mouli. 5. Underplaying freedom: the Catharsis of the female self in Anita Desai's novel Clear Light of Day/Prajna Paramita Panigrahi. 6. A critique of Basavaraj Naikar's Light in the House/S.B. Bhambar. 7. A sigh is not just a sigh : inhaling and breathing out of meanings in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh/Devasree Chakravarti and G.A. Ghanshyam. 8. The Dravidian aesthetics in Anita Desai--a feminist perspective/V. Ramesh. 9. A critique of Aravind Adiga's Between the Assassinations/A.J. Sebastian sdb. 10. The trauma of partition in Azadi/Basavaraj Naikar. 11. "...The dead do not die nor the living live" : a study of Raja Rao's on the Ganga Ghat and The Serpent and the Rope/Jaydeep Sarangi. 12. The idea of evil in post-colonial thought : a study of Mamang Dai's The Legends of Pensam/Nigamananda Das. 13. My (De) voice: thus Shashi Deshpande speaks/P.D. Nimsarkar. 14. Feminist consciousness :  a study of Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jaan Ada/Zarrien Zehra Rizwi. 15. Tendulkar's Kanyadaan : a saga of dichotomy/G.A. Ghanshyam and Tanjeem Ara Khan. 16. Quest for cultural values in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq/U.N. Kurrey and Susan Udai. 17. The vision of evil in Seth's The Shirt of Flame/Basavaraj Naikar. 18. Mixing memory with vision beyond voice: a study of Jayanta Mahapatra's poetry/Bikram Kumar Mohapatra. 19. The diasporic poetry of G.S. Sarat Chandra/Basavaraj Naikar. 20. Search for self in the poetry of Nissim Ezekiel/Mukesh Modi. 21. Brevity and irony in A.K. Ramanujan's A River/V. Ramesh. 22. Singing out the song of subaltern: a (post) post-colonial study of Arun Kolatkar's Kala Ghoda Poems/Hemang Desai. 23. Semantic devices in the poetry of A.K. Ramanujan/Satendra Kumar. 24. The Kamala Das: a modern bard of feminine sensibility/Satendra Kumar. 25. Poet who unifies sensibility: A Rendezvous with Basanta Kumar Kar/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 26. Translation studies: recent trends/T. Sai Chandra Mouli. 27. 'Sing Jo Jo'-translations of Lullabies from Karnataka/Shweta Rao. 28. The poetry of V.V.B. Rama Rao : a study in variety and subtlety of themes/D.C. Chambial. 29. An interview with Jayanta Mahapatra/Jaydeep Sarangi. 30. Dalit movement in Maharashtra/Sudhir B. Wadekar. 31. Voice of resistance : a study of Meena Kandasamy's Touch/Jaydeep Sarangi. 32. A short fiction : a farewell to dad/Sunil Sharma.

"The book makes a comprehensive evaluation of some of the major Indian writers, films, box-office hits, critics/theorists in English and also focus on some of the issues vital to contemporary Indian literary criticism. Even though much is available as scattered pieces in the field, there has seldom been an effort to bring together the major writers for close scrutiny in a single volume. Similarly, the efforts to highlight the issues of contemporary criticism with special reference to Indian English have also been scanty. The canon of Indian English criticism is still amorphous. There is hardly any university in India where it is taught with academic seriousness. This signal book shows that Indian critical writing in English is an exciting area which deserves to be a subject of serious study, academic attention and painstaking research by the English departments in our colleges and universities.

For a conscious reader, it is an incomparable critical study of Indian English literature, offering both a qualitative perspective and a measuring rod at a time of immense growth in the tradition of Indian writing in English." (jacket)