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Summary: Slanted but still has some good work
Review: I bought my copy inspite of reading severeal reviews criticizing Mr. Rushdie's choice of literature to represent Indian writing. ALthough I agree with most of the ctiticism, I was pleasently surprised to find that I did like the book immensely. It had been many years since I had read authors such as Anita Desai, and works such as Nayantara Sahgal's "With Pride and Prejudice" were enough for me to oversome the prejudice that I had in my when I started off reading it. Had Mr. Rushdie not claimed to have collected works representing the entire Indian literature spectrum, he could have been fended a lot of the criticism that this book received.
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Summary: Enjoyed it...
Review: I enjoyed this anthology quite a bit.It may be "self-serving and slanted towards his friends" but his friends write *well* and I enjoyed reading their work. His introduction is especially good and addresses several issues that are mentioned above. No one should expect an anthology to be complete- their very nature is to exclude more than they include. I appreciate seeing some of my favorite "Indian" authors in print (Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy among others) and I look forward to a companion edition in the future. If anyone would like to recommend another anthology of post-indepence Indian fiction I would be interested in hearing about it.
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Summary: Not Indian, say expatriate writing
Review: Very slanted in its choice of the authors, the book can hardly claim to be representative of Indian writing. Indo-English writing is a miniscule portion of Indian writing, both in quality and quantity, this fact has not been addressed in the editorial choices.
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