The Picador Book of Modern Indian Writing

The Picador Book of Modern Indian LiteratureEdited by Amit Chaudhuri Picador, 653pp, £16.99ISBN 0330343637Salman Rushdie, introducing The Vintage Book of Indian Writing (1997), declared Indian writing in English to be the strongest body of literature ever to have emerged from the subcontinent. The statement was vintage Rushdie – controversial, tendentiously self-serving. And much as his […]