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Interpretations on Indian Fiction-2 Contribution of Anita Desai to Indian English Fiction  India’s substantial contribution to world literature is largely due to the profusely creative literary works generated by Indian novelists in English. Their works contemplated and deliberated on multifarious range of issues like nationalism, freedom struggle, social realism, individual consciousness and the like. This literary movement being fortified by the overwhelming output by novelists and distinguished itself as a remarkable force in world fiction. This has been achieved by novelists who sought to prove their inner creative urges in English language, which is indeed an alien tongue for them. It is to the credit of these novelists that they have overcome the hurdles of writing in a foreign language and have been evolved a distinctive style for themselves by mastering the intricacies of the language and assimilating in it the hues and flavors of the Indian – sub continent. Raja Rao famo...

Interpretations on Indian Fictions- 1 (In Custody) Themes, setting and narrative techniques   Even though linguistic and religious varieties in India endow the country with a rich cultural mosaic, the cultural scene is still fraught with clashes. Indeed, competing cultures within India continue to strive for supremacy. Published almost three decades ago, Anita Desai’s novel, In Custody (1984), raises ongoing cultural anxieties besieging Indian consciousness at the present time. Desai’s narrative charts the changing social and cultural values as India moves towards a global ethos. It starts from the story of a Hindu teacher, infatuated by the decaying Urdu language and literature, to portray a marginalized minority superseded by an increasingly engulfing Hindu culture. The narrative dramatizes the highly politicized issue of languages in India and explores its social and artistic ramifications. The kind of cultural memory Desai is constructing in her text, and how this depic...