Contents

Meena Alexander 1951

Mulk Raj Anand 1905

Anjana Appachana 1972

12

Jean Arasanayagam 1930

16

Vikram Chandra 1961

21

Upamanyu Chatterjee 1959

27

Amit Chaudhuri1962

32

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri 18971999

38

Gita Mehta1943

149

VedMehta 1934

153

Pankaj Mishra 1969

158

Rohinton Mistry 1952

162

Bharati Mukherjee 1940

169

Kiran Nagarkar 1942

177

Suniti Namjoshi1941

181

Kirin Narayan 1959

186

Kamala Das 1934

43

Anita Desai 1937

47

Shashi Deshpande1938

54

Farrukh Dhondy1944

61

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 1956

64

Indira Ganesan 1960

69

Zulfikar Ghose 1935

72

Amitav Ghosh 1956

78

Yasmine Gooneratne 1935

83

James Goonewardene 19211997

88

Romesh Gunesekera 1954

93

Sunetra Gupta 1965

100

Kaizad Gustad 1968

103

Mohsin Hamid 1971

107

Githa Hariharan 1957

111

Raj Kamal Jha 1966

115

Firdaus Kanga 1961

118

Manju Kapur 1949?

122

Mukul Kesavan 1957

125

Adib Khan 1949

128

Chandani Lokuge 19??

132

Manohar Malgonkar 1913

136

Kamala Markandaya 1935

141

RK Narayan 19062001

193

Michael Ondaatje 1943

201

Victor RangelRibeiro 1925

207

Raja Rao 1910

212

Arundhati Roy 1960

218

Salman Rushdie 1947

223

Nayantara Sahgal 1927

235

I Allan Sealy 1951

243

Shyam Selvadurai 1965

247

Vikram Seth 1952

251

Bulbul Sharma 1952

257

Bapsi Sidhwa 1938

260

Khushwant Singh 1915

265

Sara Suleri 1953

272

Manil Suri 1959

277

Shashi Tharoor 1956

281

Ardashir Vakil 1962

288

Moyez G Vassanji 1950

292

Selected Bibliography

297

Index

301

About the Editor and Contributors

305

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