Fifty Years of Indian Writing: Essence
50 years of Indian writing: A celebration R.K.DHAWAN India has contributed significally to the overall world literature. This contribution of India has been chiefly through the Indian Writing in English, novelists being in the forefront in this respect. A good number of novelists on the contemporary scene have given expression to their creative urge in no other language than English and have brought credit to the English fiction as a distinctive force in the world fiction. To attempt creative expression on a national scale in an alien medium has seldom happened in human history; and it speaks of the prolific quality of the Indian mind to assimilate the newly confronting situations and the complex dilemmas of modern world. II In the recent times, a great body of historical fiction has emerged on the literary scene. Man