Please suggest some good works in Indian English writing.?

Question

after 'the namesake', im looking for......

Answer 1

u can go for saki's books,or .... r.k narayan's swami and his friends,..or arundathi roy's god of small things ...Rushdie's work Midnight's Children.....Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy .......Shashi Tharoor, in his The Great Indian Novel ........

is this enough???if not go check any of the libraries.....

Answer 2

RKNarayan's books are good! So are a few books by historians, including Nehru! In contemporary writing, Shashi Tarur and Gangadhar are good, they do columns in some 'papers'! And, there are people like Amitav Ghosh, Bangar, Vikram Seth, for variety!

Answer 3

Khushwant Singh's " A Train to Pakistan" remains one of the finest books written in the last century. Among contemporary writers, Amitav Ghosh, Upmanyu Chatterji, and Shashi Tharoor are some of the very best on offer. But hey ! please avoid all those who cater to the baser instincts of human nature and concentrate on highlighting only the sexual aspect of human behaviour under the pretext of writing good literature. Just shoo them away from your door step if they happen to approach you.

Answer 4

Lahiri's short story collection _INterpreter of Maladies_ is good, too.
Anita Rau Badami's _Hero's Walk_ and _Tamarind Mem_ are also interesting.

After reading the other answers I'm curious about Nehru.

Answer 5

God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Malgudi Days - R K Narayan
Discovery of India - Jawahar Lal Nehru

Answer 6

Rohinton Mistry.

Answer 7

I highly recommend Rusty, the boy from the hills by Ruskin Bond. The other Rusty books are good to, but this one is the best.

Answer 8

Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, especially people like Salman Rushdie who was born in India. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature; Indo-Anglian is a specific term in the sole context of writing that should not be confused with the term Anglo-Indian. As a category, this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature- the production from previously colonised countries such as India.

IEL has a relatively recent history, it is only one and a half centuries old. The first book written by an Indian in English was by Sake Dean Mahomet, titled Travels of Dean Mahomet; Mahomet's travel narrative was published in 1793 in England. In its early stages it was influenced by the Western art form of the novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian. Raja Rao's Kanthapura is Indian in terms of its storytelling qualities. Rabindranath Tagore wrote in Bengali and English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English. Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first Indian author to win a literary award in the United States. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, a writer of non-fiction, is best known for his The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian where he relates his life experiences and influences. P. Lal, a poet, translator, publisher and essayist, founded a press in the 1950's for Indian English writing, Writers Workshop.

R.K. Narayan is a writer who contributed over many decades and who continued to write till his death recently. He was discovered by Graham Greene in the sense that the latter helped him find a publisher in England. Graham Greene and Narayan remained close friends till the end. Similar to Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Narayan created the fictitious town of Malgudi where he set his novels. Some criticise Narayan for the parochial, detached and closed world that he created in the face of the changing conditions in India at the times in which the stories are set. Others, such as Graham Greene, however, feel that through Malgudi they could vividly understand the Indian experience. Narayan's evocation of small town life and its experiences through the eyes of the endearing child protagonist Swaminathan in Swami and Friends is a good sample of his writing style.

Among the later writers, the most notable is Salman Rushdie, born in India, now living in the United Kingdom. Rushdie with his famous work Midnight's Children (Booker Prize 1981, Booker of Bookers 1992) ushered in a new trend of writing. He used a hybrid language – English generously peppered with Indian terms – to convey a theme that could be seen as representing the vast canvas of India. He is usually categorised under the magic realism mode of writing most famously associated with Gabriel García Márquez.

Bharati Mukherjee, author of Jasmine (1989), has spent much of her career exploring issues involving immigration and identity with a particular focus upon the United States and Canada.

Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy (1994) is a writer who uses a purer English and more realistic themes. Being a self-confessed fan of Jane Austen, his attention is on the story, its details and its twists and turns.

Shashi Tharoor, in his The Great Indian Novel (1989), follows a story-telling (though in a satirical) mode as in the Mahabharata drawing his ideas by going back and forth in time. His work as UN official living outside India has given him a vantage point that helps construct an objective Indianness.

Other authors include Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Raj Kamal Jha, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharti Kirchner, Khushwant Singh, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikas Swarup, Rohinton Mistry, Kiran Nagarkar and C R Krishnan.

Answer 9

I second Lahiri

And add Salman Rushdie, of course.

Answer 10

- Mr and Mrs Iyer - its approximately communal riots - MunnaBhai 2 - approximately gandhi - Rang de Basanti - toddlers awakening - Iqbal or Black - fulfillment for those with disabilities - Lagaan - patriotism and group spirit