By Ramlal Agarwal Shashi Tharoor’s third novel, Riot, confirms that he strives for novelty in his fiction. The novelty was a prominent feature of his first novel, “The Great Indian Novel,” about […]
Riot: A Love Story by Shashi Tharoor
Indian Novel in English: Last three decades
By Ramlal Agarwal Writing about Indian writing in English. Salman Rushdie in his preface to Vintage Indian writing in English 1947-1997 says, “The prose writing – both fiction and non-fiction created in […]
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: Broken lives, Illicit love and Incest
By: Ramlal Agarwal Like Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy is not deterred by the constraints of using English as Indo-English writers did before Rushdie. Rushdie and Roy adapt English to suit the expression […]
Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters: “An American Adventure”
By: Ramlal Agarwal Desirable Daughters is a powerful expression of the collective Indian psyche and Indian ethos. It shows how Indians are fascinated by the technological excellence, money power, and narcissistic individualism of the […]
Rushdie and Magic Realism
By: Ramlal Agarwal Magic realism is a widely used term in literary discussions, especially of novels written in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie […]
The Fictional World of Henry James
By: Ramlal Agarwal In the second half of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th centuries, there was a surge in creative writing and most of the masterpieces in American […]
Indian Interpretation of ” The Waste Land”
By: Ramlal Agarwal It is a hundred years of “The Waste Land”, and though the poem is inundated with critical commentary, research, and explanation, it still remains a puzzle for most of its […]
Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’: Stories of Expatriate Experience
By Ramlal Agarwal Jhumpa Lahiri, born of Bengali parents in England and brought up in America, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her debut collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies, has […]
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: A Dissenting Note
By: Ramlal Agarwal Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize and has generally been highly acclaimed. Rushdie is a representative of the post- modernism. Which David Lodge called ‘crossover fiction’ and ‘aesthetics […]
Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel: An epic Blunder
By: Ramlal Agarwal Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel has come in for high praise in India and abroad and is already in its fifth edition. Khushwant Singh called it one of […]
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