Indo-Anglian Fiction
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A Private Affair
A look at Salman Rushdie's love affairs and his current work.
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Naipaul's Way
The great writer supports a scribe's cause.
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Third-time Unlucky
Why Rohinton Mistry misses The Booker award each time.
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Literary Fiction?
Literary fiction has its down time now.
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Ashok K. Banker: An Exclusive Interview
In an exclusive interview with suite101.com, Ashok K. Banker, the well-known author, talks about his new project and transformed writing career.
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Midnight's Children On Stage
Musings on the soon-to-be-seen stage version of Midnight's Children
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Verdant Melodrama
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru, despite the hype, is a verdant novel based on a poorly conceived plot.
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Civil Lines/5
Civil Lines,a literary magazine, has a whole lot of interesting contents in its current issue.
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Sasthi Brata
Sasthi Brata, once the toast of bibliophiles, is a pathetic figure today.
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A Grand Entry,A Grand Entry
Davidar's first novel is a brilliant and well-crafted work with the right mix of imagination and sensibility.,Davidar's first novel is a brilliant and well-crafted work with the right mix of imagination and sensibility.
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Of a publisher-writer, and his first novel
David Davidar,India's topmost publisher, publishes his first novel.
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Making a Point
Arundhati Roy,the Booker-winning novelist,recently went to jail to prove her point.
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Homecoming, Vernacular writers and a thousand pities
A report on first international literary festival of India held in this February.
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Naipaulian!
Naipaul supports a scribe's cause in a unique way.
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Arundhati Roy: A Pamphleteer?
A look at current writing status of the Booker-winning novelist Arundhati Roy
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Saleem Sinai
Re-reading Midnight's Children provides the author with new insights and meanings.
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Too Many Writers
There are too many writers today churning out the banal and stale material.
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Doctor As A writer
Nazir Cursetji Edul is a promising doctor-writer.
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A Different Agenda
Banker protests against the current marketing standards of the publishing business.
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Cheers For Ashok Banker
Ashok Banker, a prolific writer, bags a huge book deal with an American publisher.
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Nobel For Naipaul
A controversy is raging across the literary scene after V.S. Naipaul wins the Nobel for 2001.
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Love and Love
Naipaul's new novel starts out with a quest for life, but ends up in love's underbelly.
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QUO VADIS?
A free-wheeling discourse on terrorism and war.
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Sherlock Holmes' Missing years
A new and interesting novel on Sherlock Holmes by a Tibetan author.
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Arundhati versus Supreme Court
Arundhati Roy, the novelist-turned-activist now battles with the highest court of India.
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Rohini's Bombay
Rohini's first novel is an authenticated and intimate account of a Bombay slum life.
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How to Read a First Novel (2)
Last part of the guessing game.
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How to Read a First Novel (1)
First novel has its pattern, and it can be read in a new way.
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Misplaced Mystics
Despite an elegant prose, Ecstasy by well-known psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar, falis as a novel.
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In Search of E-Rushdie
Fiction on the net by Indo-Anglian authors has yet to go a long way to make its mark.
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Magnum Opus
The Glass Palace, the latest novel, by Amitav Ghose proves to be his magnum opus.
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R. K. Narayan
The great story-teller who created Malgudi, the fictional sleepy town with its fascinating men and women, passes away.
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The Strange Case of Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy, the celebrated author turned activist, raises a pertinent question about the contempt of court.
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The Big Advance
Big advances to writers by top-notch publishers are not a boon, as these are generally perceived.
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On an underrated novel
Kiran Nagarkar's magnificent novel "Cuckold" has not yet got the recognition it deserves.
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A Writer's Protest
Amitav Ghosh, the eminent Indian author, protests the idea of Commonwealth literature in a unique way.
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Manil Suri: does his work live up to the media hype?
Despie the media hype, and many fulsome reviews about his debut novel, Suri fails to impress as a writer.
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Naipaul's New Novel
Links: V.S.Naipaul overview; http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/carribbean/naip
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