That is called a change!!

Literature is an art,

Perfect combo of knack and craft,

It is a written Dart,

 And a passionate Graft..

Salman Rushdie's statement in his book, ‘The Vintage Book of Indian Writing’ – "the ironic proposition that India's best writing since independence may have been done in the language of the departed imperialists is simply too much for some folks to bear" – created a lot of antipathy among many English writers. Amit Chaudhuri questioned in his book ‘The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature’- "Can it be true that Indian writing, that is endlessly rich, complex and a problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English?"

Despite these implicit statements it is not wrong to say in the present light that Indian English literature has found a credible ground. We can easily associate ourselves with the works of members of the Indian diaspora like V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Agha Shahid Ali, Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie today.

Indian English literature demotes works by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Indian literature and writing in English has a reasonably diminutive but highly charged history.  The Travels of Dean Mahomed perhaps stand at the foremost position in terms of Indian English writing. Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand led the groundwork of Indian English Literature. Their works were the forerunners to the magnificent diversity of Indian writing in English that we see and can feel today.

Thanks to the reader’s interest that bears this splendour of literary piece. English Literature beholds an artistic or superior merit in the country. This is the essence of any written exertion.

The savour, curiosity and familiarity have under seen a transition from the preliminary pieces to the present works by the Indian English writers.  Books like Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathy, Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh, The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri did the real toil.  Of course change can be established. Though more is yet to come..

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