Volume : 5, Issue : 4, April - 2016

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH: DEFINING TERRITORY

Ms. Parul Nagpal, Dr. Tanu Gupta

Abstract :

<p>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The paper will make an endeavor to find out the position of Indian writing in English in the large domain of rich and variant streams of regional, National and International Literature and at the same time will also project women and her predicament as portrayed by the trajectory of Indian drama. Meenakshi Mukherjee , a noted critic, while speaking of literary meeting held in London, in 1982 as a part of the Festival of India, said, &amp;ldquo;That this literary event should be limited to those few writers who have chosen to write in English and form a somewhat marginal section of the vast and complex literary scene does make one somewhat uneasy. Sitting in the seminar hall it was easy to form the impression that no other literature exists in India except what is written in English.&amp;rdquo; Now when Mukherjee calls English writing a &amp;ldquo;somewhat Marginal section&amp;rdquo;, this is a point to ponder. Is this writing truly marginal? The answer to this question shall gradually evolve in this paper.&lt;/p&gt;</p>