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"Subject of poetasters, the Paradisal Isles!" he once remarked in a review of an anthology of West Indian writing.
He was series editor of Faber Caribbean Writers, launched in 1998 to place West Indian writing alongside translations from the French, Spanish and Dutch Caribbean.
But John Updike identified her as an "initiated outsider", while for Salman Rushdie, who anthologised her in his Vintage Book of Indian Writing (1997), her voice was that of the "rootless intellectual".
A specter haunts Indian writing — the specter of authenticity.
Indian writing in the 1980s and '90s was dominated by exuberance, and the novel.
Like so much modern Indian writing, then, "English, August" is concerned with cultural alienation and dislocation.
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THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, written and produced by Thomas L. Carmody, also stars J. Kenneth Campbell (Bulworth, Yulee's Gold) and newcomer Winter Fox Frank.
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh HarperCollins £17.99, pp400 Among the many Indians writing in English today, Amitav Ghosh is a notable presence.
"She was one of the first Indians writing in English being published abroad.
OnlineTyari is already making a powerful impact with their immediate focus on the over 10 million Indians writing entrance exams for government jobs".
But tell us about Indians writing in English and publishing in India that impress you.
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