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We don’t have to be historians or archaeologists or anthropologists or psychologists to know that the past has a grip on us. Almost everyone...

“I don’t understand you,” said Alice. “It’s dreadfully confusing!” “That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly: “it alway...

One of the most critical (literary) devices for the émigré author is the act of remembering. For, much of the content of immigrant writing i...

South African writer J M Coetzee, winner of two Booker Prizes, makes no bones about it. Soon after winning his Nobel Prize in 2003, Coetzee,...

In the last thirty years, the contemporary Indian novelist (writing in English) isn’t the only one who has prospered. There have been others...

It’s interesting to note that although many Indian authors writing in English live in the UK, the US and Canada, their stories are mostly ab...

In one of my recent posts on the contemporary Indian novel, I had mentioned a point raised by Salman Rushdie. That of the tendency of Indian...

If you have read my previous posts on the contemporary Indian novel, you would have got the feeling that it is one which is necessarily writ...

I don’t understand it. In spite of V S Naipaul not having any good things to say about India, we are eager to embrace him as an Indian autho...

Salman Rushdie is the biggest name in contemporary Indian literature. Think of the Indian novel, or Indian writing in English, and ‘Rushdie’...

From the point of view of Indian writing in English, if there is anything unique or outstanding about the contemporary Indian novel, then, a...

There are a couple of things we need to keep in mind. First, there is the Indian novel written by Indian writers living in India and writing...

In the last 30 years or so, the Indian novel has made a major breakthrough in world literature. It has found for itself a suitable position,...

How can the Indian novel do well in a world where the novel, and literature itself, is dominated by the English language? If it’s not Englis...

As it happened in England, in India, too, the novel as a genre began in mid-nineteenth century. What was before the novel is difficult to cl...

What is the novel’s raison d’etre? Can the novel help us understand reality, to define the boundaries and/or the relationship between fictio...

“Borges remarked that a new reading of a book is also a new writing of that book. Stories are eternal only in that they are always being r...

“The novelist’s ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.” –...

“What good is the novel, the long story told in prose? Hegel called the contingent, the everyday, the mutable, "the prose of the world,...

STEP 1 : Read the novel quickly, beginning to end. STEP 2 : Read the novel slowly, with concentration, paying attention to each and every de...