The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature edited and with an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri [in AsianWeek]
03 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian
The first-ever comprehensive anthology in the West of Indian writing, represented in prose, poems, and memoirs by 38 writers from the 1850s to the 1990s.
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