Course Outline
Unit 1
Introduction to the contemporary Indian writing in English-Themes and Concerns- Styles- poetry, drama, fiction, short story.
Unit 2
Poetry [All Detailed]
Meena Kandasamy- “Aggression”.
Gieve Patel- “On Killing a Tree”.
Temsula Ao – “Prayer of a Monolith”.
Saleem Peeradina: “The Lesson”.
Suniti Namjoshi: “Speech”.
Unit 3
ManjulaPadmanabhan: Harvest [Detailed].
Mahesh Dattani: Dance Like a Man [Non-Detailed].
Unit 4
Fiction [All Non-Detailed].
Upamanyu Chatterjee: English, August: An Indian Story
Rohinton Mistry:Such a Long Journey.
Unit 5
Short Story [All Non-Detailed].
Mahasweta Devi “The Breast Giver”
Jhumpa Lahiri “The Brotherly Love”.