The anthology contains perceptive articles on the three major forms of Indian English Literature: poetry, fiction and drama. As usual fiction enjoys a lion’s share. The writers discussed in this anthology include poets like Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, A.K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel; novelists like R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya, Shantha Rama Rau, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Anita Desai, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy, Amit Chaudhuri; short story writers like Subhadra Sen, Kamala Das, Jhumpa Lahiri and dramatists like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahesh Dattani.
The contributors to this Volume include Radhakanta Mishra, U.S. Rukhaiyar, K. Balachandran, M. Thirumeni, Bhagabat Nayak, S. John Peter Joseph, Jibesh Bhattacharyya, S.N. Vikram Raj Urs, T.K. Ravindran, G.A. Ghanshyam, Nishat Zaidi, Sadhana Agrawal, Madhu Joshi, Alka Singh, Indu Kulkarni, K.T. Sunitha, Anita Parihar, Basavaraj Naikar and Amar Nath Prasad.
Basavaraj Naikar (b. 1949), M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. (California), Professor and Chairman, Department of English, Karnatak University, Dharwad (India), is a bilingual writer in Kannada and English. He has published several reviews and research articles in national and international journals. He reviews Indian literary works for World Literature Today (Oklahoma, USA) regularly. He has translated many works from Kannada into English and vice versa. His specializations in teaching and research include Shakespeare Studies, Indian English Literature, Indian Literature in English Translation, American, Anglo-Indian, Commonwealth Literature, Translation: Theory and Practice. He is the recipient of Gulbarga University Award for translation, Oliver J. Reddick Award from A.S.R.C., Hyderabad for research and Gemini Academy Award from Panipat. He is a Fellow of the United Writers’ Association of India, New Delhi. His The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories was short listed for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for the Best First Book from Eurasia in 2000. His second collection of stories, The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories and first historical-political novel, The Sun Behind The Cloud dealing with the colonial encounter between Bhaskararao Bhave of Naragund Kingdom and the East India Company, have been published recently.
His Kannada publications include Paduvana Nadina Premavira, Huchchuhole, Kollada Neralu, Jogibhavi (staged, broadcast, telecast, and prescribed as a text for B.A. Degree), Nigudha, Saudha, Govardhanram, Asangata, Kannada Asangata Natakagalu, Samrachanavada, Beowulf, Gilgamesh Mahakavya, Vatsalya and Bharatiya English Sahitya Charitre. His English publications include Sarvajna: The Poet Omniscient of Karnataka, Critical Articles on Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Musings of Sarvajna, Shakespeare’s Last Plays: A Study in Epic Affirmation, The Folk Theatre of North Karnataka, Sparrows, Sandalwood, Kanakadasa, Sangya Balya, Fall of Kalyana, Indian Response to Shakespeare, Indian English Literature (5 Vols.) and Critical Response to Indian English Literature.
