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Indian English literature

Index Indian English literature

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. [1]

156 relations: A Fine Balance, A Flight of Pigeons, A Suitable Boy, A. K. Ramanujan, Abhay Kumar, Agha Shahid Ali, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Anglo-Indian, Anita Desai, Anju Makhija, Aravind Adiga, Arnab Jan Deka, Arun Kolatkar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Arundhati Roy, Assam, Avant-garde, Bangalore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bibhu Padhi, Booker Prize, Chandan Kumar Bhattacharya, Colonization, Commonwealth Foundation prizes, Counterculture, David Davidar, Debut novel, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Dilip Chitre, Dom Moraes, Don Webb (writer), English language, Eunice de Souza, First Opium War, Gabriel García Márquez, Gieve Patel, Gopi Kottoor, Graham Greene, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, India, Indian English, Indian literature, Indian poetry in English, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Jahnavi Barua, Jane Austen, Jayanta Mahapatra, ..., Jeet Thayil, Jerry Pinto, Jhumpa Lahiri, John M. Bennett, K. Srilata, K. V. Dominic, Kamala Markandaya, Kamala Surayya, Kerala, Kersy Katrak, Kiran Desai, Kisari Mohan Ganguli, Kovid Gupta, Lakshmi Holmström, Languages of India, List of literary movements, Literature from North East India, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Magic realism, Mahabharata, Makarand Paranjape, Malgudi, Mani Rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Manoj Das, Maximum City, Meena Kandasamy, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Michael Rothenberg, Midnight's Children, Mulk Raj Anand, Nalini Priyadarshni, Nayantara Sahgal, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Nissim Ezekiel, Nobel Prize, Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, Novel, Penguin Books, Postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, Prakalpana Movement, Pulitzer Prize, Purushottama Lal, R. K. Narayan, Rabindranath Tagore, Raja Rao, Ram Nath Kak, Ranjit Hoskote, Ratan Lal Basu, Rich Like Us, Richard Crasta, Richard Kostelanetz, River of Smoke, Robin Ngangom, Rohinton Mistry, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ruskin Bond, Sahitya Akademi, Sahitya Akademi Award, Sake Dean Mahomed, Salman Rushdie, Sarojini Naidu, Sea of Poppies, Shashi Tharoor, Sheila Murphy, Shiv K. Kumar, Shreekumar Varma, Smita Agarwal, Sri Aurobindo, Such a Long Journey (novel), Sudeep Sen, Sujata Bhatt, Suketu Mehta, Swami and Friends, Tabish Khair, Tales from Firozsha Baag, Tamil Nadu, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Circle of Reason (novel), The Glass Palace, The God of Small Things, The Golden Gate (Seth novel), The Great Indian Novel, The Hungry Tide, The Inheritance of Loss, The Shadow Lines, The White Tiger, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Toru Dutt, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, University of Michigan, V. S. Naipaul, Veterinary physician, Vihang A. Naik, Vikram Chandra (journalist), Vikram Chandra (novelist), Vikram Seth, Writers Workshop, Yuyutsu Sharma. Expand index (106 more) »

A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry.

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A Flight of Pigeons

A Flight of Pigeons is a novella by Indian author, Ruskin Bond.

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A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993.

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A. K. Ramanujan

Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) also known as A. K. Ramanujan was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada.

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Abhay Kumar

Abhay Kumar (अभय कुमार)/Abhay K. (born 1980) is an Indian poet-diplomat.

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Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was a Kashmiri-American poet of Kashmiri origin.

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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer and music composer.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer best known for his work in English fiction.

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Anglo-Indian

The term Anglo-Indians can refer to at least two groups of people: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry, and people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent.

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Anita Desai

Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Anju Makhija

Anju Makhija is a poet, playwright, translator and columnist, She has a M.A in Communications from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist.

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Arnab Jan Deka

Arnab Jan Deka is a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, documentary film director, columnist, TV actor, jurist, river engineer and eco-technocrat.

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Arun Kolatkar

Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (Marathi: अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर) (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was a poet from Maharashtra, India.

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Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet, artist and a writer on spirituality and culture.

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Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay or Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (27 June 1838–8 April 1894) was an Indian writer, poet and journalist.

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Bibhu Padhi

Bibhu Padhi born Bibhu Prasad Padhi on 16 January 1951, is an Indian poet and writer.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Chandan Kumar Bhattacharya

Vattacharja Chandan (also known as Chandan Kumar Bhattacharya), is a bilingual (Bengali and English) writer, poet, composer and mail artist.

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Colonization

Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

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David Davidar

David Davidar (born 27 September 1958) is an Indian novelist and publisher.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji (ধন গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায় Dhan Gōpāl Mukhōpādhyāy.) (6 July 1890 – 14 July 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928.

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Dilip Chitre

Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India.

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Dom Moraes

Dominic Francis "Dom" Moraes (19 July 1938 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian writer and poet who wrote in the English language.

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Don Webb (writer)

Don Webb (born 1960) is an American science fiction and mystery writer, as well as an author of several books on Left Hand Path occult philosophy.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Eunice de Souza

Eunice de Souza (1940–2017) was an Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War (第一次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Opium War or the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice in China.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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Gieve Patel

Gieve Patel (born 18 August 1940) is an Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a practicing physician/doctor based in Mumbai.

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Gopi Kottoor

Gopikrishnan Kottoor is the pen name of Raghav G. Nair (born 1956, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala), an award-winning Indian English poet.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom.

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Harindranath Chattopadhyay

Harindranath Chattopadhyay (2 April 1898 – 23 June 1990) was an Indian English poet, a dramatist, an actor, a musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency.

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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian English

Indian English is any of the forms of English characteristic of India.

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Indian literature

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.

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Indian poetry in English

Indian English Poetry is the oldest form of Indian English Literature.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India between 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Jahnavi Barua

Jahnavi Barua (জাহ্নৱী বৰুৱা.) is an Indian author from Assam.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jayanta Mahapatra

Jayanta Mahapatra (born 22 October 1928) is one of the best known Indian English poets.

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Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil (born 13 October 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician.

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Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children's fiction, as well as a journalist.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author.

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John M. Bennett

John M. Bennett (b. 1942, Chicago) is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet.

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K. Srilata

K.

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K. V. Dominic

K.

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Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 16 May 2004) was a pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist.

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Kamala Surayya

Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and Kamala Das, was an Indian English poet as well as a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kersy Katrak

Kersy Katrak (1936–2008) was an Indian advertising man and poet of the 1970s.

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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author.

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Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Kisari Mohan Ganguli (also K. M. Ganguli) was an Indian translator, who is most known for the first (and thus far only) free English translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata published as The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose between 1883 and 1896 by Pratap Chandra Roy (1842–1895), a Calcutta bookseller, who owned a printing press, and collected funds for the project to translate the 18 books of the Mahabharata.

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Kovid Gupta

Kovid Gupta (born 1988) is an American author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist.

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Lakshmi Holmström

Lakshmi Holmström MBE (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016)Amanda Hopkinson,, The Guardian, 18 May 2016.

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 76.5% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 20.5% of Indians.

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List of literary movements

This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance.

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Literature from North East India

Literature from North East India (Assamese: উত্তৰ-পূৱ ভাৰতৰ সাহিত্য) refers to literature of in the languages of North East India and the body of work by English-language writers from this region.

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Madan Gopal Gandhi

Dr.

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Magic realism

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Makarand Paranjape

Makarand R. Paranjape (born 31 August 1960) is an Indian poet and a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.

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Malgudi

Malgudi is a fictional town located in south India in the novels and short stories of R.K. Narayan.

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Mani Rao

Mani Rao (born 28 February 1965) is an Indian poet and translator, writing in English.

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Manohar Malgonkar

Manohar Malgonkar (Marathi: मनोहर माळगांवकर; 12 July 1913 – 14 June 2010) was an Indian author of both fiction and nonfiction in the English language.

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Manoj Das

Manoj Das (born 1934) is an award-winning Indian author who writes in Odia and English.

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Maximum City

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is a narrative nonfiction book by Suketu Mehta, published in 2004, about the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

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Meena Kandasamy

Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, or Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত; 25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a popular 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist.

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Michael Rothenberg

Michael Rothenberg is an American poet, songwriter, editor, and active environmentalist.

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Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie.

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Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.

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Nalini Priyadarshni

Nalini Priyadarshni (born 26 April 1974) is an Indian poet and writer.

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Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal (born 10 May 1927) is an Indian writer who writes in English.

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today.

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Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian Bengali−English writer and man of letters.

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Nissim Ezekiel

Nissim Ezekiel (Talkar) (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art-critic.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Postcolonial literature

Postcolonial literature is the literature of countries that were colonised, mainly by European countries.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Prakalpana Movement

The Prakalpana Movement of Kolkata was sparked off in the Bengali language on 6 September 1969, by Vattacharja Chandan with the assistance of Dilip Gupta and Asish Deb.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Purushottama Lal

Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010) commonly known as P. Lal was an Indian poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher.

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R. K. Narayan

R.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Raja Rao

Sri K. Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole.

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Ram Nath Kak

Ram Nath Kak (1917–1993) (राम नाथ काक (Devanagari)) (born in Srinagar and died in Honolulu) was a Kashmiri veterinarian whose autobiography Autumn Leaves is one of the most vivid portraits of life in 20th century Kashmir and has become a sort of a classic.

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Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator.

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Ratan Lal Basu

Ratan Lal Basu (Bengali: রতন লাল বসু; born 23 December 1948) is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.

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Rich Like Us

Rich Like Us is a historical and political fiction novel by Nayantara Sahgal.

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Richard Crasta

Richard Crasta (रीचर्ड क्रास्ता (Devanagari)) is an Indian American writer and novelist, with a strong Indian identity in his writings.

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Richard Kostelanetz

Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic.

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River of Smoke

River of Smoke (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.

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Robin Ngangom

Robin S Ngangom (born 1959) is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India.

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer.

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Romesh Chunder Dutt

Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত) (August 13, 1848 – November 30, 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Rukmini Bhaya Nair is an eminent linguist, award winning poet, writer and critic of India.

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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent.

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Sahitya Akademi

The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.

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Sahitya Akademi Award

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages (24 languages, including the 22 listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, along with English and Rajasthani) recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

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Sake Dean Mahomed

Sake Dean Mahomed was a Bengali Anglo-Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who was one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu; Chattopadhyay, (13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian independence activist and poet.

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Sea of Poppies

Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician and a former career international diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.

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Sheila Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy (born 1951 in Mishawaka, Indiana) is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978.

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Shiv K. Kumar

Shiv K. Kumar (16 August 1921, Lahore, British India – 1 March 2017, Hyderabad, India) was an Indian English poet, playwright, novelist, and short story writer.

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Shreekumar Varma

Shreekumar Varma is an Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet, known for the novels Lament of Mohini (Penguin, 2000), Maria's Room (Harper Collins, 2010), Devil's Garden: Tales Of Pappudom (Puffin, 2006), The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu (Puffin, 2009) and the historical book for children, Pazhassi Raja: The Royal Rebel (Macmillan, 1997).

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Smita Agarwal

Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Allahabad, India.

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Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist.

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Such a Long Journey (novel)

Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry.

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Sudeep Sen

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Sujata Bhatt

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Suketu Mehta

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Swami and Friends

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Tabish Khair

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Tales from Firozsha Baag

Tales From Firozsha Baag is a collection of 11 short stories by Rohinton Mistry about the residents of Firozsha Baag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

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Tamil Nadu

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Tapan Kumar Pradhan

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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the 1951 autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, an Indian writer.

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The Calcutta Chromosome

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English-language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh.

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The Circle of Reason (novel)

The Circle of Reason is the first novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things (1996) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy.

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The Golden Gate (Seth novel)

The Golden Gate (1986) is the first novel by poet and novelist Vikram Seth.

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The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor.

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The Hungry Tide

The Hungry Tide (2004) is the sixth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh.

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The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai.

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The Shadow Lines

The Shadow Lines (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

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The White Tiger

The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.

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Thomas Hardy's Wessex

The English author Thomas Hardy set all of his major novels in the south and southwest of England.

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Toru Dutt

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Trinidad and Tobago

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United States

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), is an Indo-Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship.

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Veterinary physician

A veterinary physician, usually called a vet, which is shortened from veterinarian (American English) or veterinary surgeon (British English), is a professional who practices veterinary medicine by treating diseases, disorders, and injuries in animals.

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Vihang A. Naik

Vihang A. Naik or Vihang Ashokbhai Naik (2 September 1969) is one of the contemporary bilingual poets from Gujarat, India and a native speaker of Gujarati.

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Vikram Chandra (journalist)

Vikram Chandra (विक्रमादित्य चन्द्रा 7 January 1967) is a leading TV journalist and technology expert, who is the founder of Editorji Technologies.

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Vikram Chandra (novelist)

Vikram Chandra (born 1961 in India) is an Indian-American writer.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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Writers Workshop

Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by the poet-professor Purushottama Lal in 1958.

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Yuyutsu Sharma

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References

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