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By G. J. V. Prasad

The essays during this booklet examine the interplay among English and different Indian languages and concentrate on the strain of languages on writers and on one another. Divided into elements, the 1st a part of the booklet bargains with the strain that English language has exerted, and maintains to exert, in India and our rules of connectedness as a state within the ways that we care for this strain. The essays emphasise at the emergence of the hybrid language within the Tamil cultural global as a result presence of English (and Hindi); at the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and the way Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the assumption of the kingdom, its ancient place. the second one a part of the booklet makes a speciality of Indian English literature and offers with how it interacts with the belief of representing the Indian state, occasionally obsessively, noticeable either in poetry and novels. The booklet argues that the writer’s position is essential to the realm of mind's eye, no matter if within the novel, poetry or drama. the realm is inflected through the positioning of the writer, and the fight among the language dominant in that situation and English is a part of the inventive pressure that gives strength and strong point to writing.

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