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Introduction
A number of interesting first novels have appeared on a variety of
subjects. Kausalya Saptharishis The TamBrahm Bride is a satirical portrait
of marriage in present-day India; Sushil Guptas The Fourth Monkey
portrays a college lecturer in Delhi, while Anjum Hasans Lunatic in
My Head is about life in Shillong. Sucharit Rajadhyakshas The Circle
for Vice is a thriller set in Pune. Suri and Bals A Certain Ambiguity is
A Mathematical Novel, while Ambarish Satwiks Perineum: The Nether
Parts of the Empire employs medical terminology. First books of fiction
dealing with diasporic life include Rishi Reddis Karma and Other Stories
and Monicaradhans The Hindi-Bindi Club. Established novelists like
Tabish Khair and Timeri Murari have published new novels. A number
of novels are based on factual events: Nikita Lalwanis Gifted, Anuradha
Marwahs Dirty Picture, and Indra Sinhas Animals People. Poets, old
and new, have brought out volumes of poetry. However, the outstanding
book of the year 2007 is non-fiction: Multiple Facets of My Madurai by
Manohar Devadoss.
Multiple Facets of My Madurai contains sixty-six meticulously executed
drawings. Of these, twenty-six have appeared in his first novel, Green
Well Years (1997), which recreated life in the temple town of Madurai
in the 1940s50s. The portfolio contains detailed drawings of the important buildings of Madurai like the Meenakshi Amman Temple, and
its ornamented gopurams (towers), Regal Talkies (the cinema house),
the Collectorate, Thirumalai Nayaks Mahal (palace), the American
College (which houses SCILET the Study Centre for Indian Literature
in English and Translation), and St Marys Cathedral. There are also
beautiful rural scenes. The text provides a comprehensive introduction
to Madurais history and cultural ethos. It is also an autobiographical
record of the writers visual and artistic journey, and the reader cannot
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help admiring the courage and determination of Devadoss who continues

to draw in spite of deteriorating eyesight.
M. Sridhar is a critic and a translator who teaches at the Department
of English at the University of Hyderabad. His first book of poems,
In-creasing Folds, has fifty poems, twenty-five written originally in
English, followed by another twenty-five translated from Telugu. The
twin collection brought out also has Telugu poems followed by Telugu
translations of his English poems. This raises interesting questions about
creativity. As he points out in his prefatory comments, In the context of
bilingual creativity, which of the two languages shapes thought? Or does
the shape of the thought come after a language is chosen? Perhaps the
most prominent feature of these well-crafted poems is their accessibility.
The English and the Telugu poems are similar in thought and imagery.
Concrete images are employed to express complex thoughts. The poem
Rooted Freedom observes, rootless or otherwise/ is a state of the mind. /
Look at that tree, / how it swings this way and that/ delightfully free.
Samuel Dani teaches English at a college in Orissa; his first collection
of poems, Autograph on Fire captures the pain of the exploited. Born
in Kalahandi, the famine prone district of Orissa, Dani writes about the
pathetic condition of the adivasis there: Like sheep / they are herded
into the train/ where they hardly distinguish/ between seats and floor. / ...
and Kalahandi is exported/ to brick-kiln of Hyderabad. Many poems
show that it is women who suffer the most, ill-treated not only by society
but also by their own husbands.
Vilas Sarang is a literary critic who writes fiction and poetry both in
Marathi and English. He too is a teacher of English, but in metropolitan
Bombay. His second collection, Another Life, reveals his first-hand
experience of life in the Middle East (he was in Iraq from 1974 to 1979,
teaching English at the University of Basra; from 1991 to 2002 he taught
in Kuwait). In Times of Terror: A Sequence is not just about terrorism,
but also about the deprivation and imperial exploitation which give rise
to it. There has been no significant improvement in the fate of the poor.
The poem Death begins:
In 1967 I wrote a poem
In which I spoke of denials of starvation deaths;
Now, in 2002, I hear in the TV news
Of denials of starvation deaths in Rajasthan.
Sarangs academic experience is evident in poems like Embed which

begins, Orwell, you shouldve been kicking around at this hour!
Imtiaz Dharker, poet, artist and documentary film-maker, is a Muslim
brought up in Glasgow, who now lives in Bombay. An Indian edition of her
fourth book of poetry, The Terrorist at My Table (2006) appeared in 2007.
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Like her other books, Terrorist at My Table contains a few illustrations by

the author. The poems here focus on a very contemporary concern how
people carry on their everyday lives in spite of the political turmoil. The
attack on the World Trade Centre (9/11) is the event that looms large
over many of the poems. The poem The Right Word has different terms
for a terrorist in the last line of every stanza: a terrorist; a freedomfighter; a hostile militant; a guerrilla warrior; a child who looks like
mine; a boy who looks like your son, too. No one thinks about the
future; immediate survival is what engages them: But today / Today let
me just/ live through this rickshaw ride (Tomorrow).
C.P. Surendran is a journalist and columnist, at present with The Times
of India. He is the author of three volumes of poetry, Gemini II (1994),
Posthumous Poems (1999), and Canaries on the Moon (2002), as well as
of a novel, Iron Harvest (2006). Portraits of the Space We Occupy: New
and Selected Poems was published in 2007. In addition to individual
poems, there are three cycles: Bombay, Ruhnama and Catafalque. As
in earlier collections, there is a sense of violence and hostility, but there
is also something new, a touch of sadness, especially in the thirty poems
in Catafalque, written during the last years of his fathers life, when he
was suffering from Alzheimers disease. The title poem ruminates on the
photographs, which carry little meaning now, since you turned your own
pale ghost / Weve carried them all up to the attic under our breath.
M.K. Ajay, born in Kerala in 1973, has postgraduate degrees in
Psychology and Human Resources Management, and now lives in
Malaysia with his wife and daughter. Sweetness of Salt is his second
collection of poems, after Facsimile of Beliefs (2005). His poems feature
various geographical locations: An Indian in Manhattan, At Malibu Pub,
Kuantan Beach, Onset, At Kozhikode, Malacca or Changing Colours
at Dawn, Frasers Hill, for example. He has a keen eye, and ordinary
things take on new meanings: A bicycle left under a banyan tree / is a
distraction, a black skeleton thinking / of its cooling metal soul and the
hamlets isolation.
Mukesh Kumar Williams was born in an Indian Christian family in
Allahabad, and studied at Allahabad University. He taught English at St
Stephens College, Delhi, for about two decades before moving to Japan.
Nakasendo and Other Poems (published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta
in 2006) recreated his experiences in India and abroad.
Tabish Khair, poet, novelist and literary critic, has published his
third novel, Filming: A Love Story. Films occupy an important place in
the Indian psyche; the seven sections of the novel are Reels named
after seven of the nine rasas of Sanskrit poetics. The characters are
introduced as if they are actors in a film: Starring Saadat Hasan Manto
as Himself. Filming mixes straight-forward story-telling with flashbacks
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and dream sequences. It begins in 1929, in the early days of the Indian
film industry, with Harihar, a bioscope-wallah who makes a living by
travelling from village to village exhibiting silent black-and-white films.
Harihar fulfils his dream of owning a film studio by giving up son Ashok
to a rich landowner for adoption. The novel touches upon the communal
tensions in India; each reel is prefaced by the nightmarish rambling of
a young Hindu bigot, in January 1948, who hopes to get glory by setting
fire to the film studio. Filming repays re-reading; there are so many clues
and references we can pick up only on a second reading (Harihar and
Durga for example, are names of characters in Rays Pather Panchali,
while Amar Akbar Anthony is the title of a popular film with Hindu,
Muslim and Christian heroes). The novel presents climactic moments
of Indian history through the lives of characters based on real people
(like the writer Saadat Hasan Manto) and fictional characters related
to the film industry.
Many novels published this year describe life in contemporary India.
Kausalya Saptharishis debut novel The TamBrahm Bride examines
the institution of arranged marriage through the experiences of Shalini
(Shalu), the daughter of an upper middle class Tamil Brahmin living
in Delhi (like the author herself). It starts with matching horoscopes,
and goes on to innumerable Bride-Viewing ceremonies. The boy
(that is how he is referred to, even if he is in his forties) and his relatives
consider themselves a superior class of human beings, who have to be
placated at all costs. The narrative is in the comic mode, but includes a
critical portrait of Tamil Brahmin society. Other Indian English novelists
freely use words and phrases from Hindi; Kausalya transliterates Tamil
words (manga sundal; neighbourhood mamis in their pattu saris and
mallipoo-bedecked hair). The TamBrahm Bride is a good read, and one
looks forward to more fiction from this young writer.
Sudha Murty writes both in Kannada and English. Dollar Bahu, a
novel based on her own original in Kannada, is a poignant story of a
middle-class family in Bangalore, and the consequences of the elder son
migrating to America. Chandru, a civil engineer, dreams of going abroad.
When he is sent to the USA on deputation for one and a half years, he
joins the skippers, people who take employment with an American
company without informing their original company. Gouramma, his
mother, shares his dreams of the Dollar, that magic green currency.
She admires Jamuna, the rich girl he marries, and ill-treats Vinuta, the
caring but poor girl her younger son Girish has married.
A Girl and a River, K.R. Ushas third novel after Sojourn (1998) and
The Chosen (2003), which covers fifty years (1937 to 1987) in south India,
won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. The narrator, a young woman,
has always been conscious that there is some deep tension at home. Setu,
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her father, and mother hardly talk to each other. The narrative goes back
and forth in time. The story begins in 1937; Kaveri and Setu are growing up
in a small town in Mysore. Their father Mylariah venerates the British, and
is dismissive of Mahatma Gandhi and the freedom struggle. The narrator
pieces together the story of her aunt Kaveri, who wanted to participate
in the Quit India movement against the wishes of her father.
Brinda Charry is a professor of English at Keene State College in
New Hampshire, yet her second novel, Naked in the Wind, is set entirely
in India, just like her first novel The Hottest Day of the Year (2001). Life
in middle-class Bangalore is recreated faithfully, with an Anglo-Indian
family living next door to an old Brahmin family. A news report about the
rape of some Roman Catholic nuns disturbs the outwardly even tenor of
their lives. Charry employs eight narrators, including Kathy; her mother
Marie; Shanthi; her daughter Priya; her mother-in-law Jamuna; and their
maid Rani. Kathy and Marie are presented with an inwardness which
reveals the problems faced by the Anglo-Indians. The tensions within
Shanthis family remind one of the Brahmin family in Disorderly Women
(2005) by Malathi Rao, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award this year.
This is Raos second novel; she had earlier published The Bridge: A Novel
(1990), short stories, and a volume of verse. Disorderly Women gives us a
vivid picture of the circumscribed lives of women in the second quarter
of the twentieth century. The autocracy of the patriarch, Seshagiri Rao,
ruins their lives he treats his self-sacrificing wife Venku Bai cruelly, and
does not let his daughter Kamala marry the young man of her choice.
Society is changing; we can also see the changes in the city of Bangalore,
where gracious old houses are being replaced by multi-storeyed flats.
Timeri Muraris twelfth novel The Small House examines modern
marriage in Chennai (Madras). Women are choosing not to accept old
strictures, now that they have the economic independence to defy them.
It has been an accepted practice for men of means to maintain a mistress
in a separate establishment the Tamil term for this was china veedu,
literally, small house. Roopmati, a historian and sole surviving heir of
a defunct kingdom, discovers that her husband, a business tycoon, has a
mistress. Her close friend Tazneem, a Muslim girl, has married a high caste
Hindu boy, and later discovers that her husband is bi-sexual. Murari
also author of Taj (1985), a historical novel makes an interesting use
of history here. The protagonist Roopmati attempts to come to terms
with the situation and is helped along by the imaginary dialogues she
has with a historical figure, Rani Rupmati of Mandu, in sixteenth century
India, who became a legend for her constancy in love.
Raji Narasimhan, author of five novels, has brought out a collection
of short stories, The Illusion of Home. Like her novels, the short
fiction presents an unvarnished picture of life in India, focusing on the
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problems of women. Susan Visvanathan, author of Something Barely

Remembered (short stories) and two novels, has published two novels
in 2007. Phosphorus and Stone, unlike The Seine at Noon, is set entirely
in India. The narrator is a young girl Magdalene, growing up in a fishing
village on the Arabian Sea coast in Kerala. She has an eccentric father,
her mother is dead, so she grows up wild, wandering on the beach. She
marries Jesu, her childhood playmate, the son of a rich fishing boat
owner. The second part of the slim novel is devoted to Magdas married
life in present day Bangalore. An interesting technical innovation is the
use of a diary, which recreates the thoughts and feelings of Magdas
mother in the form of letters addressed to her daughter; we later learn
that it has been fabricated by the narrator herself. The book presents a
new perspective on biblical events like the resurrection of Jesus and the
character of Mary Magdalene.
Set in rural Andhra Pradesh, The Legend of Ramulamma by Vithal
Rajan contains 16 tales about an old Dalit woman, the best known
midwife for forty villages around. Rajan is the founder chair of the
Deccan Development Society, which promotes rural development in
the semi-arid poverty-stricken Deccan plateau, and knows village life at
first hand. The stories present an authentic picture of the discrimination
against Dalits. Ramulamma is a large-hearted, wise woman who can tackle
cases where the police detectives and the doctors have failed. Her low
position in the social hierarchy cannot prevent her from getting justice.
The last story pokes fun at the writer himself: Ramulamma comes to the
aid of a social evaluator called Vithal, who is frustrated because no one
wants to read his stories.
Popular fiction dealing with young women (chick-lit) proliferates. The bestselling Almost Single by Advaita Kala and novels by
Kavita Daswani (For Matrimonial Purposes, 2003; Everything Happens
for a Reason, 2004; Salaam Paris, 2007) and Anjali Banerjee (Imaginary
Men, 2005; Invisible Lives, 2006) fall into this category. The Hindi-Bindi
Club goes beyond chick-lit to present a complex picture of two generations
of Indian immigrants in the USA. Monica Pradhans parents moved to
the U.S.A. in the 1960s, and she was born in Pittsburgh. Her debut novel,
The Hindi-Bindi Club, is about three young women, the daughters of
Indian professionals who emigrated in the 1960s. The mothers, Meenal
Deshpande (from Maharashtra, like Monica herself), Saroj Chawla
from the Punjab and the Bengali Uma Basu share a close bond, and
have not completely given up wearing the bindi, the vermilion dot on
their forehead. Sometimes they talk in Hindi, the only Indian language
they have in common, leading their young daughters to label them the
Hindi-Bindi Club. The American-born children are highly educated,
achievers in their public life, but not equally happy in their emotional
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life. Kiran, a physician, is disowned by her father when she marries a

rock star. She divorces him and starts thinking of an arranged marriage;
the Hindi-Bindi Club enthusiastically plunges into match-making, with
the help of the Internet.
Another first book, Rishi Reddis Karma and Other Stories has seven
stories of varying length. Her depiction of diasporic life is more nuanced
than Jhumpa Lahiris (Interpreter of Maladies); she presents not a generic
India, but a specific community, with due attention to the differences
between the first and second generations of these Hindus from Andhra
Pradesh settled in New England. The characters are sketched with loving
sympathy, each reacting in his or her own way to the dislocation that
migration involves. Justice Shiva Ram Murthy recreates the Indianized
English the seventy-year-old protagonist would use. He still clings to
the prestige he enjoyed in India, though he has moved to Boston after
the death of his wife, to live with his only daughter. Another story,
Lord Krishna, reveals the pain of a young boy when he has to move
from Boston to Wichita, Kansas, where there were only twenty-six Indian
families in all, and only one, other than his own, that spoke Telugu. He
feels that he and Linus Wong were weird in some way in this all-White
school. Lakshmi and the Librarian is about a forty-seven-year-old
homemaker, while Devadasi describes the experiences of Americaborn Uma, who is sixteen-years old when she comes on a family visit
to Hyderabad, and realises how different life is for women in India.
The title story is about a history professor, who realises that there is no
space for him in his brothers house or heart, and finds meaning in life
through rescuing injured birds. Bangles centres around a widow who
cannot adjust to life in America.
Arunabha Senguptas second novel Big Apple Two Bites shows the
varied responses of Indian software professionals on deputation in
New York. Some grumble about the food and culture, others direct all
their efforts towards saving money. His first novel The Labyrinth (2004)
presented young software engineers on their first job in Chennai. Here
a more experienced professional is sent to New York as a consultant
on a project, once before and once after 9/11. Sens time in New York
revolves around the Japanese martial art form Aikido, and an attractive
colleague, Allison Palmer. The novelist deals with great sensitivity with
the issues of 9/11, the loss of jobs in the software sector, and disillusion
with the corporate environment. There is a lot of enjoyable humour. The
entire book is written in the second person, adding a touch of freshness
to the narrative.
Many novelists have dealt with historical events. Ambarish Satwiks
Perineum: The Nether Parts of the Empire, is divided into thirteen chapters. Each chapter is devoted to a historical incident of Indian history,
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beginning with Robert Clives circumcision in 1742 and ending with

the death of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in 1948. The fictional
construction is based on the body as a trope, substantiated by diagrams.
The diagrams of the organs of the perineum, and sleazy incidents from
the Raj, cannot sustain the readers interest for long. Sarnath Banerjees
The Barn Owls Wondrous Capers, his second graphic novel, also presents
the seamy side of the Raj. The narrator, a young man in contemporary
Calcutta, is on a quest to find a book which his grandfather had bought
in Montmartre in the 1950s. A Jewish merchant called Abravanel Ben
Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti who lived in Calcutta in the eighteenth
century had recorded the scandalous incidents from the life of the British
administrators (such as Warren Hastings) in this book which had the title
The Barn Owls Wondrous Capers.
Rani by Jaishree Misra is a conventional historical novel. Novelists and
poets in Indian languages have written extensively about Lakshmibai,
the Rani of Jhansi, who died fighting the British in 1857. Misra adds
one more perspective to these writings. The military details of the
first Indian war of independence have only been cursorily dealt with;
the novel dwells more on the early childhood years of Lakshmibai
(ne Manikarnika), and her marriage to the older king of Jhansi. This
very readable novel is woven around a sympathetic British Agent posted
to the court of Jhansi and the supposedly romantic involvement of the
widowed Rani with him.
Rimi B. Chatterjee teaches at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Unlike
her first novel, Signal Red (2005), a thriller set in contemporary times,
her second novel, The City of Love is set in the 16th century. Most of the
action takes place around the port city of Chittagong (now in Bangladesh).
There are four strands of narrative, which keep intertwining. The most
important character is Ferdinando Almanara, a young trader from
Castile, forced to flee Spain because of the Inquisition. He comes to
India to try his fortune, and meets up with Daud Suleiman al-basri, a
charismatic Moorish pirate driven by a desire for power and knowledge.
Other important characters are Bhairavdas, a Brahman priest given to
Tantric practices, his son Chandu, and the forest dwelling tribal girl Bajja,
whom Chandu loves.
Indu Sundaresans first novel, The Twentieth Wife (2002) and its sequel
The Feast of Roses (2003) centred around the seventeenth century Mughal
Empress Nurjehan. Her third novel, The Splendour of Silence does
not have any historical personages, though it is set in the past, in 1942.
She presents a vivid picture of Indo-British relations in a small princely
state; one can discern the influence of both E.M. Forster and M.M. Kaye
(The Far Pavilions).
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Detective fiction includes debut novels like Inviting Murder by

Priyanka Nath, and The Circle for Vice, a fast-paced thriller by Sucharit
Rajadhyaksha which reminds us of Sidney Sheldon or Frederick
Forsythe. Kalpana Swaminathans The Gardeners Song is her third
book with Lalli, a retired policewoman, as the detective. Both the title
and the structure of the novel owe a lot to Lewis Carrolls The Mad
Gardeners Song: the nine chapters are based on the nine stanzas of
Carrolls nonsense poem.
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri and
Hartosh Bal revolves around Ravi Kapoor who joins Stanford University
for undergraduate studies in mathematics. He accidentally discovers that
his maternal grandfather Vijay Sahni, himself a mathematician, was in
the US in 1919 and had been in prison in New Jersey. Ravis research
through the archives of the small town newspaper recreates the past.
Sahni was jailed under the Blasphemy Laws, because he had declared
himself an atheist. John Taylor, the trial judge, is a conscientious legal
luminary, so he meets Vijay Sahni to probe his motives in criticising
Christian beliefs. They have long philosophical discussions. We are
given an insight into Euclids Elements (complete with diagrams and
geometrical constructions) and the evolution of logical thinking. We
also learn about Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevskii, who formulated nonEuclidean mathematics, and Riemans space. Ultimately, both Sahni and
Judge Taylor realize that absolute certainty does not exist. The novel is
absorbing, but it may have a limited readership because those who are
not comfortable with mathematics cannot enjoy it.
Chetan Bhagats campus novel, Five Point Someone (2004), a bestseller,
seems to have inaugurated a trend of novels about young men who join
institutes like IIT or IIM for the high salaries offered to their graduates.
Abhijit Bhaduris Mediocre but Arrogant (2005) was about two years in
a business school (XLRI, Jamshedpur, called MIJ in the novel). Tushar
Raheja was a fourth-year student at IIT when he published Anything for
You Maam: An IITians Love Story (2006). Ritesh Sharma and Neeraj
Pahlajanis Joker in the Pack has the hero, Shekhar Verma, passing out of
the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Shekhar finds that he has
to work hard at business school, unlike his three years at Delhi University,
where he could get away with studying just a couple of months before
the annual examination. The novel describes the cut-throat competition
sparked off by the system of relative grading, where a student is judged
in relation to the performance of his classmates. The summer job as a
salesman in the dusty small towns of north India is a real eye-opener
for Shekhar. The authors use too many Hindi words perhaps they had
only a North Indian readership in mind. Another debut novel, IIM
Ganjundwara by Rohithari Rajan (himself an IIM graduate) is about
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the culture shock experienced by two young IIM Ahmedabad graduates

who are sent to live in a village as part of the sales training programme
of Hindustan Lever Limited. If God Was a Banker by Ravi Subramanian
is a straightforward story of the opposite directions (moral and immoral)
taken by two young men to further their respective careers. They are
graduates from the Indian Institute of Management, who come to Bombay
to join the New York International Bank on the same day.
Above Average, Amitabha Bagchis first novel, is the story of a young
man who joins IIT. We are given a good picture of the extra-curricular
activities, but also of the importance given to grades: Just four months
into IIT we had learnt that those two numbers, your CG [cumulative
grade point average] and DR [departmental rank] defined who you were
(p179). The novel is not just about the years at IIT, it captures the grind of
attending special coaching classes, and the excitement of being selected,
and later follows up the fate of Arindam, the narrator, and his close friends
at IIT who come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.
Jet City Woman by Ankush Saikia, another first novel, presents life in
Delhi from the perspective of a young man from the state of Meghalaya,
in north-eastern India. Like many other young people, the narrator
comes to Delhi after doing his B.A. from North Eastern Hill University
at Shillong; he plans to do his MBA from one of the IIMs. In his five
years in Delhi (1997 to 2002), he leads the same life at Delhi University
that is described in Joker in the Pack. Three things dominate the mind of
the young men booze, cigarettes, and sex. The only difference here is
that he moves around with others from the North East of India, and we
find descriptions of their food (pork with bamboo shoots is a favourite).
A beautiful young woman who hides her past adds to the complexity
of the narrative.
Sushil Gupta taught English at a Delhi University college from 1962 to
2005. His debut novel The Fourth Monkey takes its title from Mahatma
Gandhis three monkeys, covering their eyes, ears and mouth, to give
the message of See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The narratorprotagonist, a college teacher like the author himself, feels that there
should be a fourth monkey, who can be pictured covering his genitals,
to declare, Do no evil. The novel presents a vivid picture of life in a
middle class family in Delhi. Young Madan Swaroops days in college
closely resemble the experiences of the protagonists of Jet City Woman
and Joker in the Pack, hanging out with other young men. They fantasize
about falling in love, but most of them settle for a bride chosen by their
parents. The first part of the novel describes all the fuss of an arranged
marriage. Later, Madan goes to teach in Sherubtse College in Bhutan;
we get to know the large-hearted people of this tiny Himalayan kingdom.
The funniest part of the novel is the use of cricketing terminology for
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the narrators sex life. Cricket, Indias national obsession, is the theme of
novelist Mukul Kesavans book of non-fiction, Men in White. The book
discusses various aspects of cricket, from match-fixing to unfair umpiring
decisions. His reminiscences of the street cricket he played as a child in
New Delhi reveal a less known facet of the city.
Anjum Hasans first book of poems, Street on the Hill, was published
in 2006. Now she has brought out a novel, Lunatic in My Head. Shillong
is seen through the eyes of three characters: middle-aged Firdaus Ansari,
a teacher of English literature; Aman Moondy, an I.A.S. aspirant; and
Sophie Das, an eight-year-old girl. All three are Dkhar the Khasi word
for non-tribal, though they were born in Shillong and have lived there
all their life. Hasans love for Shillong is prominent, and the poet in her is
revealed in the lyrical descriptions. Another first novel set in this region
is A Terrible Matriarchy by Easterine Iralu, about the Angami tribals
of Nagaland. She deals with sensitivity with the question of identity.
Caught between the militants demand for freedom and the repression
of the Indian state, many young people have lost hope and turned to
alcohol and drugs.
Two other novelists have concentrated on a particular city: Amber
Dusk by Rajat Chaudhuri has been praised for its evocation of Calcutta
and Paris, while Munmun Ghoshs Hushed Voices attempts to let the
suppressed of Bombay speak.
Some novels published this year are based on real life incidents. The
case of a young British girl with a gift for mathematics running away
from her domineering father and seeking police protection was reported
in the newspapers. In Nikita Lalwanis Gifted, Mahesh Vasi, an Indian
immigrant settled at Cardiff, dominates his young daughter Rumika,
a gifted mathematician, and makes her pass her A levels at the age of
fifteen and get into Oxford University. The child is denied a normal life;
her parents are paranoid about the permissive social life in Britain,
Rumika is punished if she even talks to boys. The novel ends with her
running away from the university examination hall to find shelter in a
foster home. Gifted was on the Booker Prize long list, so was Animals
People. Indra Sinhas Animals People which won the Commonwealth
Writers Prize for the best book from Europe and South Asia, is based on
the Bhopal Gas tragedy, when poison gas leaked from Union Carbides
factory in December 1984 and killed and maimed thousands.
The postcolonial critic Amitav Kumar has written five books of
non-fiction, the most recent being The Husband of a Fanatic (2005).
His first novel, Home Products starts with the protagonist, a journalist,
investigating the Amarmani Tripathi case. In 2003, Amarmani Tripathi,
a former minister in Uttar Pradesh (Bihar in the novel) was suspected
of killing Madhumita, a young poetess who was pregnant with his child.
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Madhumitas sister Nidhi accused the ministers wife, Madhumani, of

instigating the murder. The novel offers a portrait of contemporary Bihar
society; though, at times, it degenerates into a series of unconnected
episodes from Binods life, without a central plot. There are references
to Bombay films, the Partition and the trains from Pakistan, and the 1984
anti-Sikh riots in Delhi.
Anuradha Marwahs third novel, Dirty Picture, is based on the Ajmer
Sex Scandal. In 1992, a Hindi paper in this small town in Rajasthan broke
the story of influential politicians coercing schoolgirls into having sex.
They had taken photographs and made video films of the act, which were
used to blackmail the girls, two of whom committed suicide. Marwah
writes about two beautiful sisters in Ajmer who want to get away from
the confines of the small town; the younger girl, still at school, dreams of
making it big in politics, but ends up enmeshed in sexual exploitation.
Vijay, the protagonist of David Davidars second novel, The Solitude
of Emperors, also wants to get away from the confines of small town
life. He moves from K, a small town in south India where he is born
and brought up, to Bombay and later, to Canada. Davidar has taken the
cases of the 1993 Bombay blasts and the demolition of the Babri Masjid
in December 1992 to show that mindless violence does not have any
relationship with particular religions or beliefs. An enlightened small
newspaper editor Rustom Sorabjee sends Vijay to a remote area in the
mountainous Nilgiris near Ooty to report on a place of pilgrimage, a
church frequented by people of all religions. But Vijay finds that the
poison of religious intolerance has reached even this village. The antiSikh riots which gripped Delhi in 1984, following the assassination of
Indira Gandhi, form the climax of Selina Sens first novel, A Mirror
Greens in Spring. The novel examines how displacement affects people
by contrasting two families, from Bengal and Punjab, who have settled
in Delhi after Indias partition in 1947.
Hari Kunzrus new novel, My Revolutions, has hardly any link with India
other than the ethnic origin of its author. Chris, one of the revolutionary
flower children of the 1970s in Britain, has taken on a new identity
as Michael; but the past catches up with him in 2000, when he is
fifty years old. Another novel which is set entirely in Britain is Niven
Govindens Graffiti My Soul. The protagonist-narrator is Veerapen, a
fifteen-year-old growing up in a Surrey suburb, the son of a Tamil father
(from Sri Lanka) and a Jewish mother. He faces discrimination, both as
a coloured person and as a Jew. The novel reveals his troubled psyche
in his own sexually explicit language.
Esther Davids fourth novel, Shalom India Housing Society, like her
earlier work, deals with the life of Jews. It consists of the interconnected
stories of individuals living in a Jewish apartment complex in Ahmedabad
India
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as they go about their daily business in the aftermath of the Hindu-Muslim

riots which broke out in Gujarat in March 2002. The older generation is
attempting to foster their Jewish culture; the prophet Elijah is central to
their religious beliefs. An outstanding book of non-fiction covers the same
ground: City of Fear by Robin David, Esther Davids son, who works in
Ahmedabad as Assistant Editor for a national daily, The Times of India.
On 26 January 2001 an earthquake struck Gujarat, leaving huge cracks in
Davids ancestral home. But it was the riots of 2002 which forced them to
move out of their home, located on the dividing line between a Muslim
locality and a predominantly Hindu one. He left out of fear for his life,
for a rampaging mob could murder him because he was circumcised.
Autobiography of Lutfullah, the first full-length Indian English autobiography (first published in 1857) has been made accessible by a leading
Indian historian, Mushirul Hasan. Seamless Boundaries: Lutfullahs
Narratives beyond East and West reprints the autobiography, with a
twenty-two-page introduction, detailed biographical notes, notes on
historical events and places, a glossary of Persian and Urdu terms and
an index. Lutfullah was born in the small town of Dharanagar in Malwa
(Central India) in 1802. Because of his facility with languages, he was
offered a job with the East India Company, teaching Persian, Hindustani,
Arabic and Marathi to newcomers from England. James Erskine, the
Political Agent in Kathiawar, felt he had a knowledge of the idiom,
structure, and details of the English language that very few Orientals have
attained to. In 1844, he accompanied Mir Jafar Ali Khan, son-in-law of
the Nawab of Surat, to England. Lutfullah has a keen eye, and records
his observations in fluent English. There are good descriptions of the
various places he visited. He talks of British justice and good governance,
but he was not an uncritical Anglophile. He criticises superstition and
evil social practices, whether they are in Islam or Hinduism. Another
interesting non-fiction book by Mushirul Hasan is Wit and Humour in
Colonial North India. It analyses cartoons which appeared in the Urdu
weekly Avadh Punch, published from Lucknow (1877 to 1936). It gives
us a new perspective on resistance to the Raj and also shows that Islam
is not against humour.
Some interesting anthologies of critical essays have appeared. Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature, The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts, Reading Partition/ Living Partition
and Growing up as a Woman Writer do not confine themselves to texts in
English; they examine works in other Indian languages. Translation and
Multilingualism: Postcolonial Contexts, edited by Shantha Ramakrishna,
and Translation/ Representation, edited by Anisur Rahman and Ameena
K. Ansari, are devoted to an area which is of great importance in the
Indian context, for any study of Indian literature across regions is impossible without translation.
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