Nirmal Verma 1929–2005

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941 1
5. Sarojini Naidu 1879–1949 9
6. Premchand (Dhanpat Rai) 1880–1936 17
7. Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1897–1999 25
8. Jibanananda Das 1899–1954 42
9. R. K. Narayan 1906—2001 47
10. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer 1908–1994 56
11. Raja Rao 1908–2006 66
12. Lalithambika Antherjanam 1909–1987 73
13. Agyeya (Sachchidananda Vatsayan) 1911–1987 82
14. Umashankar Joshi 1911–1988 88
15. Saadat Hasan Manto 1912–1955 97
16. Ismat Chugtai 1915–1991 104
17. Amrita Pritam 1919–2005 114
18. Nissim Ezekiel 1924–2004 122
19. Mahasweta Devi 1926–2016 127
20. Nayantara Sahgal b. 1927 143
21. Qurratulain Hyder 1928–2007 152
22. Jayanta Mahapatra b. 1928 163
23. A. K. Ramanujan 1929–1993 170
24. Nirmal Verma 1929–2005 179
25. K. Ayyappa Paniker 1930–2006 186
26. Arun Kolatkar 1931–2004 193
27. U. R. Ananthamurthy 1932–2014 203
28. Kamala Das 1934–2009 209
29. Keki Daruwalla b. 1937 216
30. Anita Desai b. 1937 222
31. Girish Karnad b. 1938 227
32. Nabaneeta Dev Sen b. 1938 238
33. Adil Jussawalla b. 1940 248
34. Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) b. 1944 259
35. Paul Zacharia b. 1945 268
36. K. Satchidanandan b. 1946 278
37. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra b. 1947 291
38. Salman Rushdie b. 1947 295
39. Agha Shahid Ali 1949–2001 307
40. Namdeo Dhasal 1949–2014 314
41. Meena Alexander b. 1951 319
42. Githa Hariharan b. 1954 327
43. Vijay Seshadri b. 1954 332
44. Amitav Ghosh b. 1956 338
45. Raghavan Atholi b. 1957 350
46. Jeet Thayil b. 1959 357
47. Arundhati Roy b. 1961 362
48. Amit Chaudhuri b. 1962 374
49. Sudeep Sen b. 1964 386
50. Arundhathi Subramaniam b. 1967 392
51. S. Sukirtharani b. 1973 396
52. Acknowledgments 401
53. Credits 405