The essays gathered here alternately adjust the focal length of the critical lens brought to bear upon texts and contexts in the area of Indian writing in English. They bring into view both intense engagements with major voices in this literary scene and the wider socio-historical perspectives in which they have thrived. Three clearly defined sections on the genres of poetry, prose, and drama are augmented by three incisive interviews with the diasporic Indian English poet Bashabi Fraser, the renowned Indian English fiction writer Kunal Basu, and the premier Indian English playwright Mahesh...

Life goes on, even in a dystopia. In Covid-19 times and in other historical and fictional dystopian situations when the world is on the threshold of going haywire, mundane minutiae, so undermined and mocked in "normal" times, assume a life-giving status. This book is fed by that moody, sceptical life-force and itself attests to how the soundscape of dystopian reality is also replete with the sibilance of human resilience. The darkest images-nightmare-driven, despair-riven-yield the sweetness of hope partly through the sincere analysis and commitment of the contributors and partly through the...