The Non Resident Indian And Other Stories

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This title was first published in 2001. An important analysis of the links between the Indian Diaspora and the state and how this Diaspora can influence economic and foreign policy making in their country of origin. M.C. Lall focuses on India, presenting an unusual case whereby the Indian government in post- independence years ostracized its Diaspora despite the need for outside help with India’s economic development. This in-depth study of the failure of the Indian government to make good use of its Diaspora looks at the reasons why India did not cultivate a relationship after independence; why there was still no change even in light of its economic liberalization and what have been the consequences of this missing relationship.

For 100 years, nobody wanted to give their body to the ghost of the ill-fated Devdas, but Lieutenant Devdutt Sharma, a naval officer, accepted. Can Devdas fulfill his unfinished business through Devdutt? What will be the fate of Devdas this time and what was his unfinished business? 14 Screenplays of a Spiritual Filmmaker are about some unique characters: a Chamiya cow, a suicidal young man, an angry Goddess Durga, a killer doctor, a naughty child, extra-terrestrial beings from different planets, a wacky artist, a rebel farmer, a failed filmmaker, a Bangladeshi buyer, an NRI marrying a girl he hasn’t seen yet, a lonely, rich lady, a planet where children are born as old people and grow up to be children, a sad Goddess Saraswati and a VJ who faked his guest’s death on live TV. Part 2 of this series, coming soon.

Presents a reference on Asian-American literature providing profiles of Asian-American writers and their works.

This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.

Indian writers of English such as G. V. Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra and Jhumpa Lahiri have taken the potentialities of the novel form to new heights. Against the background of the genre’s macro-history, this study attempts to explain the stunning vitality, colourful diversity, and the outstanding but sometimes controversial success of postcolonial Indian novels in the light of ongoing debates in postcolonial studies. It analyses the warp and woof of the novelistic text through a cross-sectional scrutiny of the issues of democracy, the poetics of space, the times of empire, nation and globalization, self-writing in the auto/meta/docu-fictional modes, the musical, pictorial, cinematic and culinary intertextualities that run through this hyperpalimpsestic practice and the politics of gender, caste and language that gives it an inimitable stamp. This concise and readable survey gives us intimations of a truly world literature as imagined by Francophone writers because the postcolonial Indian novel is a concrete illustration of how “language liberated from its exclusive pact with the nation can enter into a dialogue with a vast polyphonic ensemble.”

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