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On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.
Review of Indic literary works which received the Sahitya Akademi awards; includes profiles of authors; silver jubilee publication of the Sahitya Akademi.
During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of certain writers and themes and the dismissal of others. Examining English anthologies of 'Indian literature', as well as the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi (the national academy of letters) and the work of R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand among others, Rosemary Marangoly George exposes the painstaking efforts that went into the elaboration of a 'national literature' in English for independent India even while deliberating the fundamental limitations of using a nation-centric critical framework for reading literary works.
The Twenty-Three Stories In This Anthology Were Initially Put Together By Jainendra Kumar, A Leading Hindi Novelist Of The Post- Independence Period. It Is Important To Realise Its Significance In The History Of The Nation As Well As In Literary History. The Volume As It Stands Today Reflects (A) The Development Of The Short Story, (B) The Aesthetic Principles Which Guided Jainendra KumarýS Choice And (C) The Cultural Concerns Of The Authors.
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what lan...