Aadi Publications: 59 books

R.K. Narayan is the first modern Indian writer to make a full-time career out of literature. He is ranked among the greatest fiction writers of the world, Narayan presents a profound moral vision in his novels without being didactic. He is generally realistic and at the same time artistic. The present...

This book is a full length study of the novels of Chinua Achebe. It has been prepared in the light of Achebe's perception of the colonialism which he and the people of the world encountered. Achebe's writings have been exclusively dealt with. The present volume is expected to be a milestone on the...

This book offers an analyses of criticism by Jonson on five poets, obscure poets, contemporary critics, Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies both. This study is a re-evaluation of the criticism by Jonson made during the period English literature flowered and gave new direction to its readers. Contents...

The book deals with some of the important trends, issues, authors and works of English literature and Indian writing in English in the form of short literary essays. Right from the Elizabethan age to the modern age, there are many influencing topics which initiated literary revolution in different...

Indian English poetry, which after independence breathed the air of freedom with an identity of its own, is rich in conception and execution. The charge that mere rubbish is being dished out in the name of Indian English poetry is not true. The poets who are rich in content as well as form remain...

Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel...

Arundhati Roy, activist par excellance has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties India before us. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance reveals the reality barely and has been a part of Roy's...

The present volume is a comprehensive and indepth study of the major plays of the major dramatists of contemporary India. The papers present the study of the plays to establish that Indian English Drama is in search of new canonical idiom to establish the native identity of Indian English drama. Besides...

The book throws lights on some of the important Indian novelists writing in English in the last two decades. Novelists like Salman Rushdie, Kushwant Singh, Raj Kamal Jha, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat and Aravind Adiga have shown extraordinary talent in handling of some modern thematic patterns and...

This book is a systematic investigation to establish some core facts on one of the major contemporary theatrical talents, Mahesh Dattani's dramatic oeuvre. It fathoms the new currents of Indian ethos, such as traditions, customs, psyche, culture, "new domesticity", Hindu guilty conscience,...

William Butler Yeats is regarded as the most important Irish poet and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century poetry in English. But readers and researchers often complain that the books on Yeats criticism tend to deal with a particular phase or a particular aspect of his poetic art and...

In most of his novels Rushdie is concerned with the problem of human identity in the postmodernist and postcolonial context characterized by hvbridity, displacement and multiculturalism. Rushdie believes that a human being does not exist in isolation; human consciousness is a conglomeration of his...

Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest geniuses produced by India. He is a poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, painter and musician, all rolled into one. His every work of art has a characteristic mark called 'Tagore'. He made the whole world feel the unique 'soul' of India. Life, love,...

Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One of the reasons behind this is contribution to this variety by litterateurs from all the major linguistic...