Many Indias, many literatures : new critical essays / edited by Shormishtha Panja

INTRODUCTION Is there an Indian Literature -- Shormishtha Panja POETRY Large words, a small silence -- Jayanta Mahapatra A discussion with Jayanta Mahapatra Imagined communities: collective aspirations in contemporary Indian poetry -- K. Satchidanandan Ezekiel's India and Mahapatra's: A fresh look at their poetry -- Sumanyu Satpathy Sr Sri's poetry: An unquenchable thirst -- H. S. Shivaprakash DRAMA A note on Indian Theatre from the performance point-of-view, with special reference to Mohan Rakesh's Aadhe-adhure and Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal -- Kirti Jain halfway House: A house divided -- Nita N. Kumar FICTION In search of an exclusive freedom: history, class and gender in Tagore's Ghore-Baire -- Shirshendu Chakrabarti "The elusive mystery and fluidity of life" and what Satyajit Ray does it: Ray's sandipisation of Tagore's Ghore-Baire -- Shormishtha Panja Metaphoric migrants and nowhere men/women: the politics of location and identity in the contemporary Indian English novel -- R. Raj Rao Imagination and politics in Amitav Ghosh's The shadow lines -- Novy Kapadia Investigating middle class subjectivity in The shadow lines -- Babli Gupta SHORT STORY The Hindi Urdu short story: Its genesis, context and evolution -- Sukrita Paul Kumar Basheer's humble historian -- Udaya Kumar The written wrath of the dispossessed -- Venkat Swaminathan An interview with Ambai -- B. Mangalam SURVEY The current trends in Urdu literature -- Shafey Kidwai