profiles of prominent indian english writers

8/13/2019 Profiles of Prominent Indian English Writers

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INDIAN ENGLISH AUTHOR PROFILES

Arundhati Roy

2ndIndian to win Booker Prize in 1971 for God of Small Things In January 2006, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing Sydney Peace Prize, Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1989, for the screenplay of In

Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, in which she captured the anguish among

the students prevailing in professional institutions

Books

The God of Small Things The End of Imagination The Cost of Living. The Greater Common Good Power Politics An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire Public Power in the Age of Empire Seven Stories Introduction to 13 December, a Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on

the Indian Parliament.

Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy.

Salman Rushdie

First Indian to win Booker Prize for Midnights Children in 1980. Won Best of Booker Award for the same.

Novels

Grimus (1975) Midnight's Children (1981)

[India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of

British India.]

Shame (1983) The Satanic Verses (1988) The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
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[The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the

ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his

family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called

"Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body

ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and also has a deformed hand. The

book also focusses heavily on the Moor's relationships with the women in his life,

including his mother Aurora, who is a famous national artist; his first female

tutor; and his first love, a charismatic, demented sculptress named Uma]

The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Fury (2001) Shalimar the Clown (2005)

[The central character, India, is an illegitimate child of a former United States

ambassador to India, Maximilian Ophuls. Although a number of narratives andincidents in the novel revolve around Kashmir, the novel opens in Los Angeles,

U.S.A. Max Ophuls, a U.S. diplomat who has worked in the Kashmir Valley, is

murdered by his former chauffeur, Shalimar.

The story portrays the paradise that once was Kashmir, and how the politics of

the sub-continent ripped apart the lives of those caught in the middle of the

battleground.]

The Enchantress of Florence (2008) The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (1987)

Children's books

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)

Kiran Desai

Her novel The Inheritance of Losswon the 2006 Man Booker Prize.Books

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and the above mentioned.

Nayantara Sahgal

She was awarded the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, for her novel, Rich Like Us

Books

Rich Like Us


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Mistaken Identity A Situation in New Delhi Lesser Breeds

Anita Desai

Has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeThe Village by the Sea

Books

In Custody (1984) ( First three books - booker prize shortlisted ) The Village By The Sea (1982) Clear Light of Day (1980) The Artist Of Disappearance (2011) The Zigzag Way (2004) Fasting, Feasting (1999)

Amitav Ghosh

The Circle of Reasonwon the Prix Mdicis tranger, one of France's top literaryawards.

The Shadow Lineswon the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sea of Poppieswas shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize Landed in controversy over his acceptance of the Israeli literary award, the $1 million

Dan David Prize

Novels

The Circle of Reason (1986)[The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengalivillage who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the

Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit]

The Shadow Lines (1988)[The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events like Swadeshi movement, Second

World War, Partition of India and Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta.]

The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)


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[This densely layered novel offers an alternate history of the discovery of the parasite that

causes malaria.]

The Glass Palace (2000)[Tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who

goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family

out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court

of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later,

as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and

Malaya the places they are today are illuminated }

Sea of Poppies (2008) (lbis #1)

[The story is set prior to the Opium Wars, on the banks of the holy river Ganges and inCalcutta. The author compares the Ganges to the Nile, the lifeline of the Egyptian civilization,

attributing the provenance and growth of these civilizations to these selfless, ever-flowing

bodies. He portrays the characters as poppy seeds emanating in large numbers from the

field to form a sea, where every single seed is uncertain about its future.]

River of Smoke (2011) (lbis #2)[In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a

consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the

whirlwind. River of Smokefollows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China.

There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and India exchange their

cargoes of opium for boxes tea, silk, porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi, a

wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the

orphaned Paulette and a motley collection of others whose pursuit of romance, riches and a

legendary rare flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with their lossesand for

some, unimaginable freedomsin the alleys and crowded waterways of 19th-century Canton.]

The Hungry Tide (2005)Non-Fiction

In an AntiqueLand (1992)

V. S. Naipaul

Got Booker Prize for In a Free State (1971) Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, second Indian to get the famed prize in

literature after Tagore.


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Books (Selected)

A House for Mr. Biswas A Bend in the River(1979)

[Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on

the coast of Centeral Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior,

there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sudries, sold to the natives.

The place is "a bend in the river"; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of

Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the

scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty

and a lack of prepartion for the modern world they have entered, or partially

assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social

breakdown]

The Enigma of Arrival In a Free State

[In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil

servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious compound

wife are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital . But in between lies

the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest

Idi Amins Uganda. And the farther Naipauls protagonists travel into it, the more

they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from

horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of

men seeking liberation far from home.]

An Area of Darkness Miguel Street (1959) A Flag on the Island (1967) A Way in the World (1994) Half a Life (2001) Magic Seeds (2004) The Loss of El Dorado (1969) India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) A Turn in the South (1989) India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990)

Mulk Raj Anand

Notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indiansociety.


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Anand won the reputation of being India's Charles Dickens. Founded a literary magazine, Marg. Morning Face(1968) won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Novels

Untouchable (1935)[It is the story of a single day in the life of Bakha, a toilet-cleaner, who accidentally

bumps into a member of a higher caste.Bakha searches for a salve to the tragedy of

the destiny into which he was born, talking with a Christian missionary, listening to a

speech about untouchability by Mahatma Gandhi and a subsequent conversation by

two educated Indians, but by the end of the book Anand suggests that it is

technology, in the form of the newly introduced flush toilet that may be his saviour

by eliminating the need for a caste of toilet cleaners.]

Coolie (1936)[The plot revolves around a 14 year old boy, Munoo, and his plight due to poverty and

exploitation aided by the social and political structures in place.]

The Village (1939) Across the black waters (1939) The Sword and the Sickle (1942)

Autobiographies

Seven Summers The Morning Face (1968)

Vikram Seth

Padma Shri in Literature & Education.

Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Commonwealth Writers Prize (A suitableboy)

Novels

The Golden Gate (1986) A Suitable Boy (1993)

[A Suitable Boy is set in post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows

the story of four families over a period of 18 months as a mother searches for asuitable boy to marry her daughter.]


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An Equal Music (1999) A Suitable Girl (2013)

Poetry

Mappings (1980) The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985) All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) Beastly Tales (1991) Three Chinese Poets (1992) The Frog and the Nightingale (1994

Children's book

Beastly Tales (1991)

Khushwant Singh

Recipient of the Padma Vibhushan Singh has edited Yojana, an Indian government journal; The Illustrated Weekly of

India, a newsweekly; and two major Indian newspapers, The National Herald and

the Hindustan Times.

Books

Train to Pakistan (1956)[It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947. Instead of depicting the Partition in termsof only the political events surrounding it, Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a

human dimension which brings to the event a sense of reality, horror, and believability.]

Truth, Love and a Little MaliceAutobiography The Portrait of a Lady The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous (Deemed his final book) The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, 1950 A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, 1967 Black Jasmine, 1971 Tragedy of Punjab, 1984 Delhi: A Novel, 199 With Malice towards One and All The End of India, 2003 Burial at the Sea, 2004 Death at My Doorstep, 2005


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The Sunset Club, 2010 A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, 1967. Black Jasmine. Bombay, Jaico, 1971 The Strain Success Mantra A Love Affair In London

Bharati Mukherjee

American-Indian ,Eminent University teacher Mukherjee's eloquent novels treat the subjects of assimilation, family, and thestruggles of Indian women. National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988 for The Middleman and Other Stories

Novels

The Tiger's Daughter (1971) Wife (1975) Jasmine (1989)

[ A novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman inthe United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able

to survive, changes identities several times.]

The Holder of the World (1993) Leave It to Me (1997) Desirable Daughters (2002) The Tree Bride (2004) Miss New India (2011) Short story collections Darkness (1985) The Middleman and Other Stories (1988) A Father The Management of Grief Memoir Days and Nights in Calcutta (1977, with Clark Blaise)

Non-fiction

The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (1987, withClark Blaise)

Political Culture and Leadership in India (1991)


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Regionalism in Indian Perspective (1992)

Aravind Adiga Indian writer and journalist Debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize , 3rdIndian to win the

prize.(V.S Naipul was not born in India)

Novels

The White Tiger: A Novel, (2008)[The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of Indias class struggle in aglobalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a

village boy. In detailing Balrams journey first to Delhi, where he works as a chauffeur

to a rich landlord, and then to Bangalore, the place to which he flees after killing his

master and stealing his money, the novel examines issues of religion, caste, loyalty,

corruption and poverty in India.[2] Ultimately, Balram transcends his sweet-maker

caste and becomes a successful entrepreneur, establishing his own taxi service. In a

nation proudly shedding a history of poverty and underdevelopment, he represents,

as he himself says, "tomorrow."]

Between the Assassinations: Picador (2008)[The title refers to the period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984

and her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991]

Last Man in Tower: Fourth Estate (2011)[It tells the story of a struggle for a slice of shining Mumbai real estate. The

protagonist of the novel is a retired schoolteacher named Yogesh A. Murthy, who is

affectionately known as Masterji.]

Shobhaa De

Columnist and novelist , former model .Books

Shethji 2012 Shobhaa at Sixty' 2010 Sandhya`s secret 2009


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Superstar IndiaFrom Incredible to Unstoppable Strange Obsession Snapshots Spouse: The truth about marriage Speedpost New Delhi. 1999. Surviving Men New Delhi, 1998 Selective Memory New Delhi. 1998. Second Thoughts New Delhi. 1996. Small betrayals1995 Shooting from the hip1994. Sultry DaysPenguin1994. Uncertain Liaisons1993. SistersPenguin, 1992. Starry Nights1989, Socialite Evenings1989

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, short story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, painter. First non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 At age sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym

Bhnusiha ("Sun Lion")

Books

* Chitra * Creative Unity * The Crescent Moon * The Cycle of Spring * Fireflies * Fruit-Gathering * The Fugitive * The Gardener * Gitanjali: Song Offerings (Translated by W.B Yeats) * Glimpses of Bengal * The Home and the World * The Hungry Stones * I Won't Let you Go: Selected Poems * The King of the Dark Chamber * Letters from an Expatriate in Europe * The Lover of God

* Mashi * My Boyhood Days


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* My Reminiscences * Nationalism * The Post Office

[It concerns Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle's home by an incurable

disease.Amal stands in Madhav's courtyard and talks to passers-by, and asks in particular

about the places they go. The construction of a newpost office nearby prompts the

imaginative Amal to fantasize about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman.

The village headman mocks Amal, and pretends the illiterate child has received a letter from

the king promising that his royal physician will come to attend him. The physician really does

come, with a herald to announce the imminent arrival of the king; Amal, however, falls

asleep (or dies) as Sudha comes to bring him flowers]

Sadhana: The Realisation of Life * Songs of Kabir * The Spirit of Japan * Stray Birds * Vocation

R. K. Narayan

Best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.Awards & Laurels

Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide Filmfare Award for the best story when the former was adopted to a movie. Received the Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhusan. AC Benson Medal by the (British) Royal Society of Literature. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times. Nominated to Rajya Sabha.

Novels

Swami and Friends (1935) The Bachelor of Arts (1937)[The story explores the transition of an adolescent mind into adulthood. It revolves

around a young man named Chandran, who resembles an Indian upper middle class

youth of the pre-independence era. First, Chandran's college life in late colonial times is

described. After graduation, he falls in love with a girl, but will be rejected by the bride's

parents, since his horoscope describes him as a manglik, a condition in which a manglik

can only marry another manglik and if not, the non-manglik will die. Frustrated and

desperate, he embarks on a journey as Sanyasi. On his journey he meets many people
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and he is also misunderstood as a great sage by some villagers. Due to the compunctions

and the realizations, he decides to return home. He takes up a job as a newsagent and

decides to marry, in order to please his parents, thinking of the discomfort he had

caused them earlier.]

The Dark Room (1938) The English Teacher (1945)[The story is a series of experiences in the life of Krishna, an English teacher, and his

quest towards achieving inner peace and self-development]

Mr. Sampath (1948) The Financial Expert (1952) Waiting for the Mahatma (1955)[Sriram is a high school graduate who lives with his grandmother in Malgudi, thefictional Southern Indian town in which much of Narayan's fiction takes place. Sriram is

attracted to Bharati, a girl of his age who is active in Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India

movement, and he becomes an activist himself. He then gets involved with anti-British

extremists, causing much grief to his grandmother. Sriram's underground activity takes

place in the countryside, an area alien to him, and the misunderstandings with the locals

provide the book's best comic moments. After spending some time in jail, Sriram is

reunited with Bharati, and the story ends with their engagement amidst the tragedy of

India's partition in 1947.]

The Guide (1958)[Railway Raju (nicknamed) is a disarmingly corrupt guide who falls in love with a

beautiful dancer, Rosie, the neglected wife of archaeologist Marco . Marco doesn't

approve of Rosie's passion for dancing. Rosie, encouraged by Raju, decides to follow her

dreams and start a dancing career. They start living together and Raju's mother, as she

does not approve of their relationship, leaves them. Raju becomes Rosie's stage

manager and soon with the help of Raju's marketing tactics, Rosie becomes a successful

dancer. Raju, however, develops an inflated sense of self-importance and tries to control

her. Raju gets involved in a case of forgery and gets a two-year sentence. After

completing the sentence, Raju passes through a village where he is mistaken for a sadhu(a spiritual guide). Reluctantly, as he does not want to return in disgrace to Malgudi, he

stays in an abandoned temple. There is a famine in the village and Raju is expected to

keep a fast in order to make it rain. With media publicizing his fast, a huge crowd gathers

(much to Raju's resentment) to watch him fast. After fasting for several days, he goes to

the riverside one morning as part of his daily ritual, where his legs sag down as he feels

that the rain is falling in the hills. The ending of the novel leaves unanswered the

question of whether he died, and whether the drought has really ended.The last line of

the novel is 'Raju said "Velan, its raining in the hills. I can feel it coming up under my

feet, up my legs --" He sagged down'.]

The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)


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The Vendor of Sweets (1967) The Painter of Signs (1977) A Tiger for Malgudi (1983) Talkative Man (1986) The World of Nagaraj (1990) Grandmother's Tale (1992)

Non-fiction

Next Sunday (1960) My Dateless Diary (1960) My Days (1974) Reluctant Guru (1974) The Emerald Route (1980) A Writer's Nightmare (1988) A Story-Teller's World (1989) The Writerly Life (2002)

Mythology

Gods, Demons and Others (1964) The Ramayana (1973) The Mahabharata (1978)

Raja Rao

Works deeply rooted in Hinduism. Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 Awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. He is considered one of the trio (along with Mulk Raj Anand and R. K. Narayan) that

forms the precursor to Indian Writing in English as we know it today.

Novels

Kanthapura (1938)[Story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to atypical village, Kanthapura, in South India.]

The Serpent and the Rope (1960)[Abstract account of a young intellectual Brahman and his wife seeking spiritual truth

in India, France, and England; it plays on the dialogue between Orient andOccident(West).]


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The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India (1965) Comrade Kirillov (1976) The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988)

Vikram Chandra

Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.

Books

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

[Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of

America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and

an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.]

Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories Sacred Games

Shashi Tharoor

Eminent Columnist, Satirist. Hindustan Times Literary Award for the Best Book of the Year for The Great Indian

Novel.

Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" AwardFiction

The Great Indian Novel (1989)[It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the epic of Hindu

mythology, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence

Movement and the first three decades post-independence]

The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories (1990) Show Business (1992)

[It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the epic of Hindu

mythology, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence

Movement and the first three decades post-independence]

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Lahiri's debut short story collection,Interpreter of Maladies(1999), won the 2000Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna (name) Her book The Lowland, published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize. She was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by

Barack Obama.

Short story collections

Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Unaccustomed Earth (2008)

Novels

The Namesake (2003)[The novel describes the struggles and hardships of a Bengali couple who immigrate

to the United States to form a life outside of everything they are accustomed to.The

story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta, India and settle in Central Square,

in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through a series of errors, their son's nickname,

Gogol, becomes his official birth name, an event that will shape many aspects of his

life in years to come.]

The Lowland (2013)[The novel is about two brothers who come of age in the 1950s and 60s in the city of

Calcutta. When one of the brothers becomes involved in the Naxalite movement in

the late 1960s, their paths divert and one of them goes to the United States and the

other one stays behind to take part in the movement. The book is about the

consequences of each of their choices.]

Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indiannovelist and journalist.

Known for writing about culture clash between Indian urban and rural societies,Markandaya's first published novel, Nectar in a Sieve, was a bestseller.


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Books

Bombay Tiger (2008) Shalimar (1982) The Golden Honeycomb (1977) Two Virgins (1973) The Nowhere Man (1972) The Coffer Dams (1969) A Handful of Rice (1966) Possession; a novel (1963) A Silence of Desire (1960) Some Inner Fury (1956) Nectar In A Sieve (1955)

[Nectar in a Sieve, set in India during a period of intense urban development, is a fictionalhistory of a marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village headman, and

Nathan, a tenant farmer. Rukmani tells the story in the first person, from her arranged

marriage to Nathan at the age of twelve to his death many years later.]

Kamala Surayya

Known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty, was a major Indian English poetand littrateur.

Nominated and shortlisted for Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984. Sahitya Academy Award1985

Books

The Sirens (Asian Poetry Prize winner) Summer in Calcutta (poetry; Kent's Award winner) The Descendants (poetry) The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (poetry) My Story (autobiography) Alphabet of Lust (novel) The Anamalai Poems (poetry) Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories (collection of short stories) Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (poetry) Tonight,This Savage Rite (with Pritish Nandy) My Mother At Sixty-six (Poem) My Grandmother House (Poem)


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Ruskin Bond

Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. The Room on the Roof,won the 1957 John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Hindi film Junoon is based on Bond's historical novella A Flight of Pigeons.

Collections

Garland of Memories Ghost Stories from the Raj Funny Side Up Rain in the Mountains-Notes from the Himalayas Our trees still grow in Dehra Dust on the Mountain A Season of Ghosts Tigers Forever A Town Called Dehra An Island of Trees The Night Train at Deoli A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings Potpourri The Adventures of Rusty The Lost Ruby Crazy times with Uncle Ken The Death Of Trees Tales and Legends from India Time stops at Shamli Grandpa tickles a tiger Four Feathers School Days The Tiger In The tunnel The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk The Doctor

Hip Hop Nature Boy and Other Poems

Novels

The Room on the Roof Vagrants in the Valley Scenes from a Writer's Life A Flight of Pigeons Landour DaysA writers Journal The Sensualist by Ruskin Bond The Road To The Bazaar The Panther's Moon


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Once Upon A Monsoon Time The India I love The Kashmiri Storyteller The Blue Umbrella The Tiger In The Tunnel Delhi is Not Far Animal Stories Funny side up Ruskin Bond`s children omnibus Maharani (Book) Angry River Roads To Mussoorie All Roads Lead To Ganga

Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. His first novel, Narcopolis, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was

also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize .

Thayil's poetry collection These Errors are Correct was awarded the SahityaAkademi Award

Editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.Poetry

These Errors Are Correct English, Apocalypso, Gemini

Fiction

Narcopolis .Rohinton Mistry

Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate (2012) Shortlisted forMan Booker Prize for Such a Long Journey (1991)

Novels

Such a Long Journey (1991) A Fine Balance (1995)
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Family Matters (2002)

Amit Chaudhuri

Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies(2012) 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award winner forA New World.

Novels

A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song, A New World Picador. The Immortals
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