LIFE AND LITERATURE

  THE LAST LABYRINTH                                                           -ARUN JOSHI             Indian English Fiction is now being studied and discussed in the entire English speaking world by those interested in the Indian sub-continent or in non-native Englishes, and by linguists for its thematic and stylist Indianness, At least half a dozen Indian English novelists have created a small but slowly increasing international reading public for themselves, e.g. Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamla Markandaya, R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Khushwant Singh and Nayantara Sahgal. The writers express themselves through various themes...

  THE HARP OF INDIA                                                                                                             -HENRY DEROZIO Introduction: “ The Harp of India ” is a  well-known patriotic poem by Derozio  who is known as the first  Indian poet in English . It is in the form of a  Shakespearean sonnet  which has three quatrains and a couplet at the end of the poem. It deals with the pathetic plight of the people of India who were under the clutches of th...