Abstract
We all know that England isn't the only country where works written in English are published. India is the third-largest publisher of English-language books. In the decades after the "Salman Rushdie phenomenon" in the 1980s, hundreds of Indian authors have published books in English. Quite a handful of them have picked up honors on a global scale. In addition to highlighting the issues taken up by these writers, I focus on classifying the themes of 327 novels written after 2000AD by Indian authors residing in or outside of India, and I do so by analyzing three works by different authors that cover three important dimensions of Indian society: youth, family, and the Diaspora.
The Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) series provides insightful commentary on some of the most prominent authors of modern Indian literature written in English. There is a clear need for a concise but rigorous introduction to numerous of Indian literature's writers and genres due to the increasing exposure of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogical, and reader circles. Perhaps one of India's most risk-taking, original, and consequential English-language playwrights working today is Mahesh Dattani. In his writing, he combines tried-and-true topics with some really original ones. His works often probe the borders between the private and the public, the domestic and the global. In this collection, Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri delves into the family, alternative sexualities, other genders, morality, and identity that are essential to Dattani's work, as well as the dramatic advances he introduced.
Keywords
Indian Literature, Indian English Fiction, Chetan Bhagat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shashi Deshpande, Indian family system