Any Indian Writer???

[booksbuddy]

Hello everybody! Today i came through work of Indian Writers and it seemed interesting to me.Has anyone overhere read any Indian writer?Suggestions are always welcome.

[Cassiel240]

Salman Rushdie. "Midnight's Children" was pretty good. I haven't gotten into "The Satanic Verses" yet. I loved Rabindranath Tagore when we covered him in my World Lit class (Tagore is Bengali, now I think about it).

[MaryLupin]

Hello everybody! Today i came through work of Indian Writers and it seemed interesting to me.Has anyone overhere read any Indian writer?Suggestions are always welcome.

Sorry. Can you tell me what kind of "Indian" you mean? Are you interested in any particular topic?

[booksbuddy]

Thanks cassiel,i will surely read it.

Mary: I don't want any particular topic,i found them interesting.If you have read a good one,you can tell me and i will try it out.Have a nice time.

[ida]

i haven't read myself, but have heard from a reliable person, that Arundhati Roy is pretty good. (she has received booker prize. i don't remember the year) hope i'll get her book here....

[booksbuddy]

ida : Arundhati roy got booker for her book 'God of Small Things'.I had heard about it and tried to read it but didn't completed it.It's story about Ants and their world which is described same as humans.Like their activities,relationships,deaths caused by road accidents.It's interesting but i hadn't completed it.Thanks for reminding me,maybe now i can complete it.

Have a nice time!

[JuLe]

'God of Small Things' - I read it a while ago, don't remember much, but I liked it.. I think I enjoyed especially the settings, there were unique places.. India you know ;) .

[MaryLupin]

Of Indian writers (originally) from the subcontinent of India
Rohinton Mistry
Arundhati Roy
Anita Desai
Gita Mehta

of North American Indian writers
Leslie Marmon Silko
Sherman Alexi
Vine Deloria
William Least Heat Moon

which did you mean?

[PrinceMyshkin]

Of Indian writers (originally) from the subcontinent of India
Rohinton Mistry
Arundhati Roy
Anita Desai
Gita Mehta

of North American Indian writers
Leslie Marmon Silko
Sherman Alexi
Vine Deloria
William Least Heat Moon

which did you mean?

And Thomson Highway & Thomas King

[MaryLupin]

And Thomson Highway & Thomas King

and N Scott Momaday & Ella Cara Deloria

[Madhuri]

Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth
Interpretor of Maladies -- Jhumpa Lahiri
A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
Difficult Daughters -- Manju Kapur

Autobiography--

The Story of My Experiemnts with the Truth -- Mahatma Gandhi

and several by Rabindranath Tagore

These are some, that come to my mind.

[tulysg1982]

I can help you on Indian bengali writers but can't help you on others; Except R.k.Narayan ( i love his work so much like- "Malgudi days", "Swami and his friends"), Jhumpa lahiri, Arundhuti Roi ( i like her column more),Khushbant singh.

[andave_ya]

Rabindranath Tagore is a beautiful writer. He wrote mostly poetry but if you want to read a novel try "Home and the World" Very deep stuff couched in terms so lyrical and beautiful you can't put it down.

[uranderson]

Vikram Chandra's latest, Sacred Games, was excellent. It's very long, over 800 pages, but I couldn't put it down. Part Godfather, part Cop-drama, part history of, and cultural commentary on, India; maybe not high-brow literature, but it's still a great novel.

Upamanya Chatterjee's English, August is a novel that I loved. It's rare for me to sympathize with a main character so completely. It's also the funniest novel I've read since A Confederacy of Dunces. Don't read this bood in public or people will stare at you when you start rolling around on the floor holding your sides. And don't eat while reading this book or you will spit food all over yourself.

Arundhathi Roy's The God of Small Things is beautifully written. I read it years ago and was amazed, she's a truly great stylist. I have a friend who was very upset with the novel because of a scene at the end between two of the main characters, but I didn't have a problem with it like she did.

I liked Vikram Seth's An Equal Music, it had some tender moments but at times came across as hyper-sensitive. I hope that makes sense, I'm not sure how to phrase what I mean off the top of my head.

RK Narayan's works are very good, understated and funny, in an ironic sort of way. They don't bowl you over with drama or stylistic pyrotechnics but I like the novels I read very much.

Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide wasn't bad, and of course Salman Rushdie is just amazing.