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A Review of Contribution Of
Indian Writers to English Literature
Dr. Laxmi Kirana Pallathadka1, Dr. Harikumar Pallathadka2, Prof. Telem Kamlabati Devi3,
Prof. Takhelchangbam Brajeshwari Devi4
1,2,3,4
Manipur International University, Imphal, Manipur, India

Email: [email protected]

Abstract: As we understand, England is not the only area worldwide where literary works
in the English language are created. India occurs to be the 3rd largest producer of books
in English. Indians' contribution to English literary works is substantial because post-1980
Salman Rushdie sensation; numerous authors have created novels in English. Several of
them have won honors at the worldwide degree. The development of Indian English books,
1980, inhabit a one-of-a-kind placement. Throughout this duration, some appealing
storytellers released their initial jobs. Some elderly masters brought out works that reveal
their creative control, which has been undamaged the whole time. Throughout the 18s that
Indian writers gained unusual honors and differences in India and foreign countries. The
workings of these authors, like third generations authors, talk expressively concerning
their creativity and extraordinary originality. Indian English literature is currently a
reality that cannot be overlooked. It has drawn in an extensive passion throughout the
years, both in India and a foreign country. What started as a "hot-house plant" has
obtained a lavish development, branching off several instructions. The initial publication
produced via an Indian in English was by Purpose Dean Mahomet titled" Travels of Dean
Mahomet," released in 1793. From that day, the pattern of English composing stayed
continued and today, keep in mind that male yet female writers have made their area.
Female authors made their contributions through excellent books, verses, and prose. This
paper offers Contributions made to English literature by Indian writers.

Keywords: Indian literature, Indian English literature, Contributions, Ravindranath

Tagore, R.K Narayan, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, Amita
Kaur

1. INTRODUCTION:

We constantly feel that we are one country, though, in fact, we talk a lot about various
languages. To obtain the typical wide range, we have specific goals, usual ideas, and usual
heritage. It is feasible by a generally influenced and shared literature. English language has
made a popular place in Indian societies and has become a leading language. However, it is
not the primary language in numerous areas; its influence can be observed from India's
education and learning system. It has been utilized, and still, it is used by authorized
businesspersons and authors.

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Indian writers have affected a whole age group by their writing. For many times, Indian
authors have contributed to English literature and magazines in the local language. Indian
writers in English are entitled to a notable mention as they have represented our country, its
rich social heritage, and societal norms to readers in the West. Indian writers have aimed at
incorporating the existing variation with the top variant. His fictional expertise understands
an Indian author, his affection to write regarding India and life exterior the safe cocoon of
one's homeland. The well-known writers of Indian beginning have gained a standing in the
fictional circles through their large creating competence. That kind of Indian writer is the
country's pride. Renowned writers are offbeat writers who have acquired a place in the well-
known literary fields. The listing of famous writers consists of promising Indian authors from
non-literature backgrounds.
In Literary works, its role stayed energetic from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first
century. Indian authors have not 'nativized' the British language regarding stylistic features;
however, they gathered English in Indianised context. Currently, India has emerged as a
significant literary country. Women English authors too made use of the British Design and
contributed to the literature. Sarojni Naidu, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Amrita Pritam
are all-female English writers. Their paintings include multidimensional themes and have
been recognized on several occasions. It discusses the contributions of many more writers to
Indian literature in English.
Rabindranath Tagore
One of the respected Indian poets of perpetuity, Rabindranath Tagore, is a Nobel awardee,
author, thinker, and representative of the Indian culture to the rest of the globe. Ghare-Baire,
Gitanjali, and Manasiare amongst his essential works.
Rabindranath Tagore composed eight novels and various poems, and the majority of his
developments remain in the Bengali language. Tagore's prominent well-known operate in the
novel category are Dak Ghar, Ghare Baire, Char Odhay, Jogajog, Gora, and Shesher Kobita.
At the same time, a respected artist, Tagore, affected the design of artists, for instance, Amjad
Ali Khan and Vilayat Khan. He made up vocabulary and songs of the nationalized anthem
Jana Gana Mana, which was acknowledged as the national anthem in 1950.
Rabindranath Tagore's track has been accepted as Bangladesh's nationwide anthem, making
him the first individual to compose the national anthems of 2 nations. He found his capacity
as an artist in his before time 60s while his very first event was kept in Paris. Tagore was
attributed to composing narratives like art, specifically in Bengali. "The fruit seller from
Kabul" is thought to be the most excellent development amongst at the very slightest 84 tales
he composed. Based on his early experience through citizens, Tagore composed tales that
provide a look at the life of nearly all Bengali in real-time. Although he created firmly in each
category of literary works, he started as a poet. His poets are an inseparable component of
each Bengali family member wherever his rhymes are stated on all significant events.
Tagore's finest collected works of poems are Gitanjali, which obtained him the Nobel Prize in
literary works in 1913.
R.K. Narayan
Best recognized for his stories based in the make-believe town of Malgudi, R. K. Narayan is
a respected Indian writer. R. K. Narayan is composed of unique elegance, resourcefulness,
and humor. The Padma Bhushan awards him for his contributions to literary works.
His initial story "Swami and Friends" was published in 1935. The other two novels, Bachelor
of Arts (1936) and The Darkroom (1938) were released in quick sequence. R.K. Narayan's

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2nd novel Bachelor of Arts had been able to draw adoration from audiences in England.
Excellent novelist Graham Greene was one of his countless admirers. In his novels, he
depicts an image of an imaginary town named Malgudi. Many of his books and the narratives
are embedded in his fictional community Malgudi. Amongst several of his other considerable
novels is The World of Nagaraj (1990), The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), The A Tiger for
Malgudi (1930), The Printer of Malgudi (1949), The Painter of Signs (1976), The Guide
(1958), and Vendor of Sweets (1967), The English Teacher (1945), Mr. Sampath, Waiting
for the Mahatma, Talkative Man and others.
Amongst the short-story collections of R. K. Narayan - Malgudi Days (1982) and The
Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories (1994) are notable. Various other books are Under
the Banyan Tree and other stories in 1987, A Writer's Nightmare, a collection of essays, A
horse and 2 Goats, a compilation of short stories. He converted Kamba Ramayanam to
English, and it was released in 1973. Later than releasing the Ramayan, he has rewritten the
Sanskrit legendary Mahabharata to the English language. Grandmother's Story was the last
publication written by R. k. Narayan. The guide is an autobiographical novel about his great-
grandmother. In this publication, he composed the battling life of his grandmother.
R. k Narayan won various covetous rewards for his tremendous contribution to Indian
English literary works. He obtained Sahitya Akademi Honor for the unique The Overview in
1958. Notably, a movie was made based upon its tale, and he was able to get the Filmfare
Honor for the most excellent Story. In 1964, he was granted the Padma Bhushan; in 1980, R.
K. Narayan obtained AC Benson Medal through the (British) Royal Culture of Literary
Works. Significantly, he belonged to the Royal Society of Literary Works (British). In 2001,
he got India's IInd highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan. This excellent writer passed
away on 13th May 2001. At 94, he died in Chennai (India) after obtaining a high elevation of
success.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
The beginning and development of journalism in Bengal have a significant effect on the
background of the Indian press. The initial Newspaper of India published in Calcutta, James
Augustus Hickey, released his Bengal Gazette (1780), which was the first Indian Newspaper.
Besides Bengali and English, the initial Urdu, Hindi, and Persian Paper published from
Bengal. However, Raja Rammohan Roy considered performing journalism on an Indian line.
Ram Mohan Roy was the pioneer of the nationalist press in India. Though others had begun a
couple of documents before him, his Sambad Kaumudi in Bengali was released in 1821, and
Miratul Akhbar in 1822 was the initial magazine with a unique national and democratic
modern alignment. (Bose & Moreno, 1920).
Raja Ram Mohan Roy began releasing the regular Sambad Kaumudi in 1819. He modified
this paper with the outstanding support of Bhawanicharan Banarjee. Nonetheless, it should be
confessed that in the nineteenth century, Bengali newspapers played a leading role in the
advancement of modern Bengali prose literary works (Sarkar, 1910). Besides Fort William
university students, nobody was keen on creating prose in Bengali. For that reason, he is
called 'the father of modern Bengali prose. (Thangamuthu, 2016).
This publication assisted in releasing an activity against the method of Sati, one of the most
burning concerns of the moment. According to the personalized of Sati, a widow was
attributed right into the burning pyre of her dead spouse. In 1811, Rammohan Roy saw his
sibling's widow burning alive in her husband's funeral pyre (Siddarth, 2018). Reverend
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Brahmanical Publication. It was initially published in 1821. The major objective of releasing
this publication was to secure Hinduism from Christian missionaries' attack. In Brahmanical
magazine, he assaulted the Christian idea of 'Trinty' and contrasted it to polytheism. He relied
on 'Unitarianism' according to which God existed in someone. He condemned 'Trinty''s
suggestion-- influenced by the Rammohan Roy's interpretation of monotheism, Rev. William
Adams, a young Baptist missionary, converted to Unitarians in 1821. (Tagore, 1966, Collet
& Sarkar, 1914). He opposed all types of social inequality by releasing different journals
publications and developing an Egalitarian culture.
On the one hand, as Roy remained to battle against several types of wickedness and
superstition in the community, on the other hand, Rammohan Roy created various articles in
newspapers and journals for the promotion and circulation of contemporary western
education and learning. He frequently, regularly composed against racism and promoted
ladies' education. He opposed numerous anti-social tasks of the Government with the
publication of Miratul-Akhbar and highlighted different national and worldwide occasions
before individuals (Yusuf 2020).
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was born on 13th February 1879 in Hyderabad. Naidu was a keen visitor, and
her overview came to be significant. She added a lot to the flexibility battle of India and
worked as the Head state of the Indian National Congress in 1952. She dealt with the U.S.A.
and Canada. In World War II in 1939, she was detained with Gandhi and Nehru. She began
her literary occupation at 11 in 1890, when she composed her first poem. She composed a
lengthy poem" The Lady of the Lake consisting of 1300 lines in 6 days in 1892. In the same
year, she created a drama containing 2000 lines. Her initial collection of poems," Golden
Threshold," was released in 1905. It contains 40 verses on various subjects. The renowned
poems of this collection are 'Innovation to India' 'Lord Buddha Seated on Lotus.' Her second
collection of poems labeled "The Bird of Time" was published in 1912 in London. It included
forty-six verses with the motif of love. Her third collection of rhymes, "The Broken Wings,"
was released in 1917 in London. It consists of sixty-one verses. Her other collections are The
Sector Flute (1953), "The Feathers of Dawn" (1961), and "The Temple." She is called the
nightingale of India.
Besides being a political leader, Sarojini Naidu was a protestor, liberty enthusiast, political
leader, and poetess. Sarojini Naidu is acknowledged to us as the "Nightingale of India."
Sarojini Naidu was India's first female governor after independence. Her collection of rhymes
cemented her literary position in Indian English poetry. Sarojini's first published book was a
collection of rhymes titled "Golden Threshold." After that, she released two other collections
called "The Bird of Time" and "The Broken Wings," which brought in viewers worldwide.
Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand is an initial writer of Indo-Anglian literary works. He presented the new age
of realism in Indo-Anglian fiction with his earlier books like Untouchable and Coolie. "These
two publications," claims (Zaheer 1975), "stay the initial amongst the most effective in this
brand-new individuals' pattern in Indian literature. To Anand belongs the honor of being the
leader, the very first in releasing modern Indian literary works on this new road" (P 1).
Intoxicated by the 'Thirties Movement in England,' Anand became a social protest and
humanism writer. M.K. Anand is stated to have won renown and prominence as the chief
spokesperson of the Indo-Anglian literary naturalism with a proletarian predisposition.
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personality, is the fate of males. His 'Coolie' (1936) is perhaps the primary individual
legendary of Indo-Anglian fiction. In the words of A.V. Krishna Rao, "It is a familiar story of
this overbearing pattern (proletarian) in contemporary society and ends up being
multidimensional with its approach of naturalism and the modern nationwide concepts.
However, underneath the prevalent pessimism, a refreshing atmosphere of positive outlook
requires radical reform of the rotten society".
In a creating career spread over nearly 40 years, he has generated many stories, six
collections of short stories, and various other deals with subjects varying from art to culinary.
His fiction is only "a particular item of the contemporary Indian values. He is differentiated
from other Indian authors by his feeling of dedication, humanism, realistic look, innovative
vigor and great compassion for the lower dogs and dregs of society" (Vaidyanathan 1993). It
is held that Mulk Raj Anand brought every little thing new to the Indo-Anglian Story and the
short stories-- brand-new matter, brand-new strategy, a brand-new design, and a new
approach" (Mehta 48), yet the influence of some Indian masters like Bankim Chandra
Chatterjee, Tagore, Sharat Chatterjee, and Munshi Premchand was felt on the writings of
Anand Mehta (1979).
He needs to his credit scores publication of such books as 1. Untouchable (1935), 2. Two
Leaves and a Bud (1937), 3. Coolie (1936), 4. Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts
(1939), 5. The Road (1961), 6. The Death of a Hero (1963), 7. The Private Life of an Indian
Prince, (1953), 8. Seven summers (1951), 9. The Big Heart and 10. The Village Trilogy.
Salman Rushdie
A lot more disputes, battles, radical strikes are being based upon the problem of various
faiths, citizenships, and societies. Is it feasible that the globe has sunk so reduced that it does
dislike any kind of distinction? Regrettably, Rushdie's novel did not contain an impact
physically robust enough to repair India and Pakistan's connection. To the here and now,
these two nations experience hatred towards everyone, to that level individuals of Pakistan
not permitted to go into the Indian nation, that the Indian not permitted to be alive close
associates with a Pakistani, to their disputes through stunning parts of previous India,
Kashmir, a location where no one wishes to go because it is stuffed with war today.
Individuals may have varying perspectives about India's history, which is the focus of the
book's Story. However, nobody can remain unsusceptible to the Story's elegance, and
reliability (Blossom, 2003) has said: "Rereading Midnight's Children, I do not discover it
dated, neither do I review it simply as an elegy to a fallen short experiment; it continues to be
an event of India, praise to both unity and multiplicity, and both ideas and difficulty to a
brand-new generation to supersede it in style." He is the writer of 13 novels; some are
Grimus, Midnight's Children (which was granted the Booker Award in 1981), Shame, The
Satanic Verses, Haroun, and the Sea of Stories. (Rushdie, 2008).
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth is one of the most adaptable and outstanding modern-day writers. His
remarkable career included several poetry volumes, a travelogue, a verse book, and an epic
novel set in India's northern region. Each book is set in different cultural and social
landscapes. He has shown the concerns related to the relations of one another. Although the
personalities come from different social courses, they are experiencing typical issues
(Mohanty, 2007).
Seth's (1986) first novel 'The Golden Gate,' in verse, was released. His other prominent
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'The Golden Gate' safe Sahitya Akademi Honor for Seth in 1994. Besides stories, he
published his poetry publications. He has credited three world-famous books, four verse
books, translation books, travel books, libretto, and biography. He has obtained top ranking
as a writer in Indian English literature.
The unique open up below with the problem of modernity, New obstacles and mindsets have
shown up with the spread conditions of extremely informed guys. As opposed to a happy and
enchanting mood, bleak and helpless mind reflection is disclosed here. We are social never
live separated although (Sinha, 2007)
Vikram Seth portrayed these 3 The Golden Gate, An Suitable, and An Equal Music books in
various locations, yet the intensity of the motif prevails on the people. Themes and issues are
presented with apparent creative neutrality. Each book is different from the other and takes an
older literary form in the modern dimension. The personalities are defined not so much by
describing their knowledge as with a relationship and an add-on. Seth takes care to link the
characters masterfully. The novels are completely worried about the need of the human
being.

Arundhati Roy
In Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997), the socio-politically unstable Kerala of
the sixties and seventies comes to be a microcosm of the larger national scene noted by
clashing political beliefs; deep course separates starvation, farming and commercial
stagnation, unemployment, and most of all caste and gender discrimination. In her
representation of the subaltern squashed by magnificent social and governmental forces, the
storyteller rewrites traditional history from the viewpoint of females and minor castes.
In the interceding years, Roy has utilized her celebrity status in India to create instead of
defense of causes she relies on, to end up being "a writer for the victims of modernity."
Nearly notable amongst pundits, Roy publicly criticized the Government for its decision to
launch nuclear examinations in 1998 in a lengthy and passionate essay-- Completion of
Imagination, all at once in India and Pakistan. Roy becomes a feminist as she tries to end
wickedness in this world. Roy wants to maintain her readers well informed. He doubts the
genuine authenticity of performing these nuclear examinations at once when countless
Indians suffer conditions of abject poverty and live in unclean shantytowns. She is pleading
with India's and the world's leaders to reconsider their actions toward the earth and its people.
All these activities indeed remain in the names of progress and national defense. She is a
feminist in the natural feeling.
Anita Desai
Anita Desai has taken care of psychological realities in her novels. Her purpose of composing
is to uncover herself and, later aesthetically, share the fact. She has attempted to probe into a
girl's subconscious's depths and reveal its connection to society. Also, this trouble can be
attracted by depicting the aberrant like Maya and Sita. Maya and Sita were delicate persons in
their moments of intense clash and their efforts to seek unsteady options (Iseni, 2014). Her
two novels, Cry the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer? Present the traumatic
experiences, psychological stress, and anxiety that Maya and Sita go through.
Desai explores the emotional globe of unstable Maya, haunted by a feeling of her partner's
casualty, therefore her concept in the astrological projection; while in Sita, Desai highlights
the concept of quenched childhood years neurosis. The repressed impulse and memories exist
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full-on aberrant picture throughout her fifth pregnancy. The style of both novels is
disharmony and constricted to the family member and sometimes to the mal-adjusted or ill-
adjusted self. Loneliness and unrequited love drive Maya was almost dead and violent,
whereas Sita has a problem with the "Oedipus complex." In addition to Sita, both Maya is
representatives of Postmodern Indian Feminism. They both stand for the Indian personality
structure, which is highly complex and multilayered. Throughout the psychoanalytical
research study, we may identify Maya and Sita as the reps of the quench women community.
Maya's unexpecting to handle neurosis selects physical violence while Sita's compromising
and readjusting with it returns house quietly.
Anita Desai is considered an interior psychological author as her prime problem is joined the
nighttime and ambiguous ambiance of the women's minds. The motivations, the concepts,
psychic enjoyment, and stormy anxiousness of the storming psychology of the
female location of their environments have dealt with the cardinal along with
unique incidences of Desai's oeuvre. Desai's fictions are autobiographical, in the feeling,
the impact her silent personality. Anita Desai pictures the glaring depiction of the females'
pursuits by fostering her compelling lead characters' extensive and more profound universes.
Her debut novel 'The Peacock' established the stage for her prolific profession as an author.
She was among the writers consisted of in the Five Indian Authors by V.V.N. Rajendra
Prasad. Trip to Ithaca, Diamond Dust, and The Zigzag Way: A novel was her other job.

Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh was a reporter, especially as an author, concentrating on the kaleidoscopic
selection of designs and layouts used to disclose them. He was birthed in (1915) in a small
village, Hadali (Punjab) (currently in Pakistan). He gives up his placement in the Indian
strange Solution. He comes back to Delhi, where he signed up with the exterior Solution of
All-India Radio (Mano Majra, 1956) in New York City and taught to Pakistan in London.

(Dhawan, 1988) considerately speaks Khushwant Singh's agitated propensity a rebellion

beside reputable standards. "Khushwant Singh intends to shock and provoke existing criteria
of Victorian morality, which he must have been distressed by in his youthful days."
Khushwant Singh has been recognized for beginning a new direction in journalism. He
challenges the accessible plans of the sport, though on his comprehensive picture of columns
exist a selection of concepts differing from culture, Government to faith, and strategy
(Bharat, 2000).
Amrita Kaur
Amrita Kaur was born on 31st August 1919 in Punjab, currently in Pakistan. Her dad was a
poet. Amrita signed up with the modern writer's movement, and she stays active in social
activities (Jabeen, 2016). She was in a relationship with Imroz, a renowned writer and actor.
For many years, she edited 'Nagmani, a month-to-month literary magazine in Punjabi. She
blogged about a hundred books of verse, fiction, essays, bios, memoirs, individual Punjabi
tunes. Many of her literary works show the fear of partition like Khushwant Singh. She is
recognized for partition literature Pinjar (The Skeleton) is a famous novel created in 1950; in
this novel, she creates her memorable character' Puro.' This novel depicts the tale of physical
violence against women and massacre during dividers on which a prize-winning film was
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Gita Mehta
Gita Mehta, an identified writer of the Indian Diaspora, has become an Indo-English
postcolonial writer of significance. She can save an area for herself in the galaxy of Indian
woman authors by including literature and non-fiction. Eternal Ganesha (2006), Karma Cola
(1979 ), Snakes and Ladders (1997 ), Raj (1993 ), and A River Sutra (1993 ) are her
significant contributions. Gita Mehta's "Article on Ashoka, made up after snakes and ladders,
make clear the factor. makes up, "... modern India specifies her sovereign standing by two
indicators from Ashoka's policy-- the steering wheel in the facility of our flag and the column
crowned by four lines stamped on our coins. these 2,300-year-symbols were not simple
entries to classic times; they were to inspire us to create a nation managed by concepts" ("
Ashoka, Beloved of the Gods") (Mehta,1998)

In addition to modernity, the method is not an antithetical component as taken advantage of

existing the concept of the previous scholar (Jain, 1998) calls it "a colonial construct." He
quotation marks approximate Heester man that mentions, "We are vulnerable to overstress
the safety of common cultures and the upheaval triggered by innovation." The thinker thinks
that practice and modernity must be measured regarding each other (Wade, 2007). In his
research on an anthropological strategy to modernity, points out as of Barry Smart: "term
originates from the fifth-century Latin term, contemporary, utilized to mark a main shift from
the pagan to the Christian" stylish observe which is the expression "modernity, "in addition
to practice, be relational terms as "they do role dialogically ... in connection by each other ...
nicely out of balance in their connection, they need us, into talking the converse of the new
numerous... ("Mirror to Mirror" 2014).

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an award-winning writer, was born in India in 1976. At 19, she
left her hometown Calcutta and moved to the U.S.A. She got a Master's Degree in English
from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Doctoral degree from the University of
California. Having released her works in over 50 magazines like Atlantic Month-to-month
and The New Yorker, she was required to write seriously. Her writings get included in over
30 Anthologies and converted into over eleven languages consisting of Dutch, Hebrew, and
Japanese. She was the co-founder of MAITRI, a helpline for South Asian Females, and this
experience led her to compose the Story Organized Marriage. This job discusses the
immigrant ladies' tortures, misuses, and courage. In The Mistress Spices, she stands for the
shifting nature of a lady's identity and her powers of transformation" (Ghanshyam, 2012).
Simply put, it might be said that 'Meeting Mrinal' is "a story that presents the seclusion and
self-centered yet unhappy postmodern people" (Nawale, 2011). The feminist perspective is
visually seen in Chitra's personality, for "Feminism is an analysis of women's subordination
for out how to change it."She needs to credit her history magazine of such prominent books
like 1. The Mistress of Spices (1997 ), 2. In Vine of Desire (2002 ), 3. Queen of Dreams
(2004 ), 4. Palace of Illusion and 5. Short Story Collections including Set up Marriage, The
Unidentified Mistakes of Our Lives, Neela Success Song, and Conch Bearers. Defining the
problems and concerns focused by Chitra Banerjee, Pleasure Hand writes in her testimonial
as: "Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni transmits a specific message to her visitor. Most importantly,
she reveals the South Secondly; she uses her to empower women and urge them to be
themselves. She knows how individual selection is the birthright of all people, men, and

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woman, Indians or Americans, and those practices can frequently overload greater than
inspiring" (Filomine, 2018).

Indian Youth
As mentioned above, Chetan Bhagat's books offer millions in India. It would be intriguing to
keep in mind that these novels have styles that appeal to young people and have
constituents akin to popular Hindi films-- one of the most noticeable forms of prominent
culture in our times. His novel has simple stories which do not require any psychological
workout to reveal hidden layers of definitions-- a feature of approved jobs. Like a Hindi
masala (Hindi for spices) film, Bhagat's Novel unite inconsonant elements like expensive,
realities, optimism, thriller, crunchy discussions, humor, sex, and so on that attract the young
people.
Among the main factors for the popularity of Bhagat's novels is that they use up problems
close to the heart of the youth. Thus, his initial novel 5 Factor A person was a site novel; his
second One Night @ the Call Centre deal with the B.P.O. (Service Processes Outsourcing) a
company that had touched heights and attracted educated young people. His novel "The 3
Mistakes of My Life" dealt with the cricket fixation of Indian individuals. Similarly, 2 States
(Chetan, 2014), Half Girl Friend runs precisely together with the popular charming
Bollywood (Bombay, the movie capital of India, described as Bollywood after Hollywood)
motion pictures. It was just recently developed into a function film. Besides the main love.

2. CONCLUSION

With the contribution of several authors, literature became an item of Indo-English

connections. Indian literature began with the Vedas and has extended its rich and pleasant
light across the country. Specific authors expanded the geographical scope of connection,
self-esteem, and adoration. Following independence, Indian English writing reached a new
level. It has been steadily growing considering that freedom. English was identified as the
primary language for nationwide, worldwide objectives and the medium of instruction for
college, court, and discovered journals. Indians used a typical medium of direction to lower
the void and presented clinical techniques. With this success, the Indian spirit intended to
fulfill the values of modern-day scientific research and the world of the West. There was a
close association between contemporary Indian literature and English literature. The
renaissance in modern India started with Rajaram Mohan Roy, a bridge between India and
England. He was not only a terrific humanitarian but an excellent social agitator. Rajaram
Mohan Roy and others established themselves as Indian writers and English speakers. They
were influenced mainly by Romantic writers. The face of English education and various other
resources took a stand against the West. Therefore, many persons participated in Indian
writing in English to shield our society and heritage by taking on the West's strategies.

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