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Indian Lit: The Unnamed Genre

By: Sai Diwan PART ONE Curtain. The colonizer has bowed out, and India remains the last man standing. The spectators gather their coats, and cheer their appreciation of the long struggle for independence one last time. And yet, Indian remains…

Conflict in Achebe’s Arrow of God

By: Sai Diwan   Take care then, mother’s son, lest you become a dancer disinherited in mid dance Chinua Achebe (Beware, Soul Brother)   These lucid lines provide the justification for the cacophony of various intertwined conflicts in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow…