Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Between the east and the west: a critical study of Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck/Jaydipsinh Dodiya. 2. Muffled Shrieks rising to a crescendo from behind the Inner Courtyard by Lakshmi Holmstrom/Fatima Sugarwala. 3. Reading paradox, suffering and self, in Jayant Mahapatra's Relationship through Indian deconstruction/Nidhi Tiwari. 4. Dalits in R.K. Narayan's novels/M.B. Gaijan. 5. Theme of partition in Amitav Ghosh's Novel The Shadow Lines/F.A. Shaikh. 6. Cultures conflict in Anurag Mathur's Inscrutable Americans/Ketan B. Vyas. 7. Philosophical perspectives in R.K. Narayan's Mr. Sampath: the Papatmika and the Shubha/Vipul V. Makodia. 8. A brief consideration of the legend of Savitri as dealt by Toru Dutt and Sri Aurobindo/A.A. Khan and B. Utpal. 9. The paradigm of power and violence in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar/Anita Myles. 10. Students Die the cast: educational structure and Indian (English) fiction/Pratik A. Dave. 11. An overview of Indian English poetry/T.S. Chandra Mouli. 12. Unfolding ultimate truth: a critical appraisal of D.C. Chambial's poetic Oeuvre/Dilip Bhatt. 13. Gendered positions in Rupa Bajwa's The Sari Shop: a post feminist reading/Ashoo Toor. 14. Woman in Qurratulain Hyder's The street Singers of Lucknow/Alka Singh and Nadia Hussain. 15. Hyphenated existence: a study of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and Meera Syal' Anita and Me/Sumedha Bhandari. 16. The shadow lines: a national critique/Keyur K. Parekh. 17. Vasudha's journey in Seven Steps in the Sky/Rachit Kalaria. 18. Shobha De's Second Thoughts: an utterance to women's pathos/Tank Nayan D. 19. Mahesh Dattani's Tara: a study of Pro-feministic attitude/Bipinkumar R. Parmar. 20. Big things in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Amit Chotalia and Heena Variya. 21. A critical study of Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers/I.G. Purohit. 22. Rohinton Mistry's Short stories: a critical study/Pooja Meswania. 23. Fact and fiction in Kamala Das's autobiography 'My story'/Sheetal Thakore. 24. Gandhian ideology in Mulk Raj Anand's Novels/Rajesh R. Ladva. 25. Interpreting M.K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj from post-modern perspectives/Vipul V. Makodia. 26. Transparency in Gandhian philosophy: a study through Gandhiji's letters/Ketan B. Vyas and Rachit D. Kalaria. 27. Virmati: a marginalized married woman in Manju Kapur's novel Difficult daughters/F.A. Shaikh. Index.
"New Perspectives on Indian Writing in English is our modest attempt to evaluate some novelists, short stories, poets and plays of Indian writing in English. It contains twenty seven articles contributed by great scholars and teachers of English who belong to the different universities in India.
The book, it is hoped, will certainly prove to be a great asset to research scholar, students and teachers who want to be thoroughly acquainted with various critical aspects of Indian Writings in English. Students, teachers, scholars as well as the common reader will find the book useful and interesting."
