[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.2″][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.0.2″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.3″ hover_enabled=”0″]Compiled by: Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Original prompt: “if you were putting one literary work from India (in English or available in English translation) on a list of the world’s great literature about religion (it doesn’t have to be exclusively about religion, but should deal in some way with religion), what would you choose?” “If you had your students read one work of fictional literature about India from the past century, what would it be?”
Suggestions:
Tissa Abeysekara, Bringing Tony Home
Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
S. L. Bhyrappa, The Uprooted: Translation of the Original Novel
Vamshavriksha in Kannada
Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August
Ismat Chughtai, The Crooked Line
Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Sunil Gangopadhyay, Sei Samay [Those Days]
Attiya Hosain, Phoenix Fled
Qurratulain Hyder, River of Fire
Arun Kolatkar, Jejuri
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Saadat Hasan Manto, Mottled Dawn
K. Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
Gita Mehta, Karma Cola or A River Sutra
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
U. R Anantha Murthy, Samskara
V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
R. K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma or The Guide
Raja Rao, The Serpent and the Rope or Kanthapura
Arundathi Roy, The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie, Midnights Children
Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, editors, Mirrorwork
Mirza Ruswa, Umrao Jan Ada
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy or Cinnamon Gardens
Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
Bapsi Sidwa, Cracking India
Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
A. Sivanandan, When Memory Dies
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
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