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	Indian Writing in English
		A major reason behind this (as has been discussed before) is that English is not the lingua franca of the country; it is not the language of the masses.
		And when the IWE writer's Indian characters all talk and think in English, he is asking the reader for another indulgence, for a higher degree of suspension of disbelief.
		This otherness of English creates a state of friction instead of cohesion in the body of Indian writing as a whole.
	indianwritinginenglish.blogspot.com (5773 words)

	Speaking a new 'mother-tongue'
		Karnad adds that writing in English brings international recognition while translation into other regional languages reaches a far broader Indian audience.
		And that is the underlying theme of this play; envy as part of the human condition that manifests itself in today’s globalised world, and the ‘politics of writing’ as Karnad refers to the literary scene today.
		This one-act, sole-perfomer drama deals with the story of Manjula Nayak, a professor of English literature and a mediocre Kannada-language writer who suddenly finds acclaim and money with a best-selling novel in English.
	www.humanscape.org /Humanscape/2005/May/theatre.php (583 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents
		The Fourth Estate dogs him with Stupid Press Questions at Boston University, where Walcott teaches English and playwriting.
		Walcott is a man of many cultures, a polyglot of African, colonialist and Caribbean traditions, a self-described "mulatto of styles." The son of two educators, he became intoxicated with the English language as a young boy, particularly with Shakespeare, which his mother recited around the house.
		Poet Derek Walcott is up early as usual, writing at the desk in his Brookline condominium.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993u.html (2385 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		Significantly, the dilemmas of writing an Indian novel in English exist for Mukerji as with every writer of that time, although he does not recognise them.
		Thus begin his recollections, confessions, and peregrinations: "This is a book of talk, for all the East talks, especially Bengalis, like myself, revealing its soul through the spoken word.
		Mukerji, on the other hand, is determined to see India through the eyes of his countrymen.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030316/spectrum/book1.htm (792 words)

	Antonio Tabucchi: a committed doubter.
		Tabucchi’s works translated into English and published by New Directions include Pereira Declares: A Testimony (1996), Requiem: A Hallucination (1994), The Edge of the Horizon (1990), Indian Nocturne (1989), Letter from Casablanca (1986), and Little Misunderstandings of No Importance (1987).
		Antonio Tabucchi is used to writing his novels on hot, empty July afternoons in Lisbon, where he lives for six months of the year.
		In “Plato’s Gastritis”, Tabucchi criticizes this logic, which he describes as “very sensible but very limited” because “it only allows us to talk of what is known”.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1999_11/uk/dires/txt1.htm (2990 words)

	Meena Alexander
		In addition to Vikram Seth's literary and poetic achievements, he was commissioned by the English National Opera to write a libretto based on the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin.
		"A Suitable Boy" won The Connect Award in 1993 and launched Seth into a slew of interviews, talk shows, and book signings on his book tour.
		On his style of writing this novel, Seth remarked that, "With such a large cast of characters, a strong voice would have been too much.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Seth.html (1479 words)

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