READING AND COMPOSITION - India in the Writers Eye

Love and longing in the new Indian novel
 

In this course, we will study the theme of love and longing in the new Indian novel. The new Indian novel is a diverse genre that houses urban tales, pulp, graphic novels, and other literary forms. These stories, written by established and upcoming authors such as Chetan Bhagat, Sarnath Banerjee, Arvind Adiga, Jeet Thayil, and others writing in English, show how love shapes everyday life in rapidly changing urban and semi-urban India today. In distinct ways, these novels give us a taste of love and longing in the new India—a heady mix of development, poverty, glitz, addiction, violence, toxicity, and politics.