INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels 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‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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Swami and Friends | | Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by RK Narayan‚ a celebrated English novelist from India. The novel‚ which is also Narayan’s first‚ is set in pre-independence days in India‚ in a fictional town - Malgudi‚ which has almost become a real place in India today‚ due to the wide recognition and popularity of Narayan’s many novels. His novels are known for their ’deftly etched characters‚ his
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A Horse and Two Goats Detailed Summary "A Horse and Two Goats" is the story of a comical and fateful meeting between two men‚ neither of who speak each other’s language. Muni and his wife live in poverty in a remote village in India called Kritam. In his prosperous days‚ before pestilence took most of his cattle‚ Muni had 40 sheep and goats. Now‚ in his old age‚ Muni has just two goats. His usual daily routine is to take the goats to graze two miles from his home‚ alongside the highway‚ at
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come to mind when the question is posted. I‚ for one‚ hold Dr. Shankar responsible for Susila’s death. His demeanor‚ attitude and work ethics throughout her ordeal did not justify his supposed status as ’the most successful practitioner in town [Malgudi]"‚ let alone "the greatest physician on earth". For starters‚ Dr. Shankar is way too sloppy in the way he works. When Krishna‚ the protagonist‚ first sought help from the physician‚ Dr. Shankar merely "asked a few questions‚ wrote down a prescription
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Syllabus of English (BDP) B.A. (Hons.) Course Code : EEG NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY 1‚ Woodburn Park‚ Kolkata-700 020 Tel. : 2283-5157 TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree Programme (BDP) in English 1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course (a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits (b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits (c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits (d) English (FEG) 4 Credits 24 Credits 2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG) Paper 1 : Reading Poetry
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the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute‚ he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi‚ first introduced in his semi autobiographical book ’Swami and Friends’. Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India‚ England‚ and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia
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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH POEM THE BEGINNING The renaissance in modern Indian Literature begins with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The infiltration of western culture‚ the study of English literature‚ the adoption of western scientific techniques‚ gave a jolt to India’s traditional life. It shocked us into a new awareness‚ a sense of urgency‚ and the long dormant intellectual and critical impulse was quickened into sudden life and the reawakening Indian spirit went forth to meet the violent challenge of
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R. K. Narayan is one of the postcolonial writers of India who are found to project the nation building attitude in their writings. His Waiting for the Mahatma‚ set in the surroundings of the writer’s created village Malgudi‚ is woven against the unconventional backdrop of the freedom movement. But in spite of using directly the national experience as the central theme as did Raja Rao‚ Narayan puts it in the background giving preference to the personal narrative. In Waiting for the Mahatma‚ the story
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By Indian English Writing‚ we mean that body of literature which is written by Indians in English. It could be in the form of poetry‚ prose‚ fiction or drama. English is not our mother tongue and we are not native speakers of English‚ yet when in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ English was introduced as the medium of instruction in our educational system‚ Indians were able to read Western literature that was available in English. They found the language
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