Reading New India: Post-Millennial Fiction in English - "the first book to focus on fiction at the millennium, the crossroad for India's globalisation" - is not a critique or a collection of reviews of individual novels or a generalised assessment of the oeuvre of individual writers, but a representation of various trends, themes, motifs, lineaments, zeitgeist, dynamic & conflicting cultural mores & values informing the fiction in hand, and an analysis of the core themes of some of the individual typical novels written in different voices., Occasionally there's a book that catches the eye and this exposé of post-millennial Indian fiction in English is no exception. And has done it with a sense of academic objectivity.
And perhaps it will outshine all other books in the 'academic' library with its lively and pulpy, Karan Joharesque cover of bright yellow and pink., This is an ambitious and novel project, strenuous though, considering the vast body of literature to be considered. Varughese's book is a gift for academics teaching Indian writing in English.
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