Dr. Arvind Nawale’s article on Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas highlights the strange case of the protagonist Billy Biswas and his association with two sorts  of women Meena Chatterjee and Bilasia, the former representing materialistic modern society and the latter representing primitive society. Mrs. Madhuri Bite examines the thematic observations in Gita Mehta’s from the post colonial point of view. Dr. Dipanita Gargava in her article  on Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines examines the perspective view of time and events. The linguistic behavior of the characters are explored by Dr. Arjun Jadhav  and Prashant Mothe in their article Conversational Analysis of Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq and Hayavadana. Zeenath Mohammed Kunbi mused on the monologic principle in Arundhati Roy’s Baby Bush Go Home.

Dinesh B.Chaudhary analyses how the complex and difficult social and psychological problem of defining an authentic self. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha a dn Dhritiman Chakraborty in their article Imperial Democracy, Homo Sacer and Arundhati Roy’s Resistance of Bare Life throws light on fictional issues , particularly on the distinction between fictional outpourings and non fictional dynamism. Dr. S.B. Bhambar in his insightful article article analyses the three selected novels of Anita Desai, Prakash Deshpande and Paulo Coelho with comparative perspective. Dr. Ramchandra Hegade in his scholarly article on Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan examines the novel as the political novel in the mode of documentary realism.

Dr. Gunjan Jain in her article  explains the theme of women’s freedom with reference to Mulk Raj Anand’s novel The Old Woman and The Cow. Sheeba Rakesh in The Brave New World (Indeed)! : Man Meets Once Cow Mother / Spivak Meets Haraway- A Deadly Motherhood, talks  on the feminist techno scientific grid that New World Order. Vishnu K.Sharma and Mahesh Kumar Sharma ‘A Study of Language and Discourse in The White Tiger’, analyses the novel from linguistic perspectives. H.C.S. Chauhan and Satendra Kumar in their article Shashi Deshpande: Shaping Her Creative Sensibility  wonderfully writes about the political and social events of the sixties and seventies along with growing opportunities of education and employment for women to encourage women.

It is a well-edited book and credit goes to the two editors Dr. Viswanath Bite and Dr. Arvind Nawale for providing an ideal reference book to students, researchers and teachers of Indian Writing in English. Viswanath Bite who is at present working as Assistant Professor in English is also the Editor-in-Chief  of  The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN (0976-8165) and Captain Dr. Arvind Nawale, the Departmental Head of English in Shivaji Mahavidyalaya has also presented and published a number of  research papers widely at national and international level. Their sincerity and erudition are reflected in the beautiful finesse of the book. The edited book is another milestone of literary criticism. It will undoubtedly enrich Indian English literature as well.