This critical anthology surveys the textual, trenchant and critical analysis of Sahitya Akademi Award Winning novels in English. The book jointly edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha and Dr Rajnish Mishra is comprehensive in contour, encyclopedic in contents, sparkling in style, surgical in criticism and succinct in summation. The very presence of three interviews makes this book all inclusive and encompassing. The book can be of great help in elucidating and illumination hidden psyche of these award winning novels and will give a fresh impetus to new analysis and research. The book posits critical articles on the novels: R. K. Narayan’s The Guide,  Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope, Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Shadow from Ladakh,  Chaman Nahal’s Azadi,  Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain, Rama Mehta’s  Inside the Haveli, Arun Joshi’s  The Last Labyrinth, Nayantara Sahgal’s  Rich Like Us,  Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines,  Shashi Deshpande’s  That Long Silence,  Kiran Nagarkar’s  Cuckold,  Amit Chaudhuri’s   A New World,  Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop,  Malathi Rao’s  Disorderly Women, Esther David’s The Book of Rachel.    

            The book showcases the articles of esteemed contributors and they are: Kulbhushan Kushal, Indira Nityanandam, Indu Swami, Sangeeta Sharma, Deepak Thakur, N. Chandra, R. Padmavathi, V. Rajesh, J. Jaya Parveen, KBS Krishna, Ambarish Sen, Vani K, Kakali Bhattacharyya, V. Sunitha,  Subhi Tresa Sebastian, Vandana Rajoriya,  Mangalkumar R. Patil, Alka Agrawal,  Grishma Manikrao Khobragade, Vinay Kumar Dubey, Ajit Kumar, Priyanka Vaidya, Bolla Jyothsnaphanija, Ramesh P. Chavan,  Lila Azam Zanganeh, Lakshmi Krishnan, Ambrose Musiyiwa, Rajnish Mishra and  Vivekanand Jha.

1.      A Poem of the Fact: Vivekanand Jha

2.      Plot as Narrative Strategy in Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope - Kulbhushan Kushal

3.      Nothing New: Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World - Indira N

4.       Suppressed Womanhood: The Questions of Marriage, Sexuality and Woman’s Equality in Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich like Us -  Indu Swami

5.      Feminist Concerns in That Long Silence - Sangeeta Sharma

6.      The Shadow Lines: A Transnational and Cosmopolitan Discourse - Deepak Thakur

7.      Transformation of ‘Gendered’ Ideologies through Generations: A Critical Study of Malathi Rao’s Disorderly Women - N Chandra

8.      The Voice of Silence in Fire on the Mountain - R Padmavathi

9.      A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of R. K. Narayan's The Guide - V. Rajesh & J. Jaya Parveen

10.  Living the American Dream in India: A Study of Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop - KBS Krishna

11.   Chaman Nahal’s Azadi: An Exploration of the Evils of Indian Partition & A Stigma in the National History - Ambarish Sen

12.   The Theory of the Two Nations: The Shadow Lines - Rajnish Mishra

13.   Women’s Liberation in R.K. Narayan’s The Guide: A Reading of the Character of Rosie - Vani. K

14.   Making of the consciousness in Women in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence - Kakali Bhattacharya

15.  Is Seclusion the Sanctum for the Melancholic Mind? - An Appraisal of Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain -  V. Sunitha

16.  The Yarns of Urban India: Women in Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop - Subhi Tresa Sebastian

17.  Rama Mehta as a Post Colonial Indian Women Novelist with reference to Inside the Haveli -  Vandana Rajoriya

18.  Azadi: The Theme of Migration of the Victims of Partition - Mangalkumar R. Patil

19.  Labyrinths of Unrevealed Identical Cravings of Human Psyche in Joshi’s The Last Labyrinth - Alka Rani Agrawal

20.  A Feminist Reading of Gender, Class and Oppression in Shashi Deshpande’s  That Long Silence - Grishma Manikrao Khobragade

21.  Voices of Exile in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain - Vinay Kumar Dubey

22.  Women and History: A Critical Perspective on Kiran Nagarkar’s Cuckold - Ajit Kumar

23.  Web of Quests in Bhattacharya’s Shadow from Ladakh - Priyanka Vaidya

24.  Translating the Language of Insanity in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence – BollaJyothsnaphanija

25.  Existentialism in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain - Ramesh P. Chavan

26.  Identity Formation and Polarization: The Shadow Lines - Rajnish Mishra

27.  R K Narayan’s The Guide: A Reminisce - Vivekanand Jha

28.  Lila Azam Zanganeh in Conversation with Amitav Ghosh

29.  Lakshmi Krishnan in Conversation with  Amit Chaudhary

30.  Ambrose Musiyiwa in Conversation with  Esther David

This critical anthology surveys the textual, trenchant and critical analysis of Sahitya Akademi Award Winning novels in English. The book jointly edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha and Dr Rajnish Mishra is comprehensive in contour, encyclopedic in contents, sparkling in style, surgical in criticism and succinct in summation. The very presence of three interviews makes this book all inclusive and encompassing. The book can be of great help in elucidating and illumination hidden psyche of these award winning novels and will give a fresh impetus to new analysis and research. The book posits critical articles on the novels: R. K. Narayan’s The Guide,  Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope, Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Shadow from Ladakh,  Chaman Nahal’s Azadi,  Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain, Rama Mehta’s  Inside the Haveli, Arun Joshi’s  The Last Labyrinth, Nayantara Sahgal’s  Rich Like Us,  Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines,  Shashi Deshpande’s  That Long Silence,  Kiran Nagarkar’s  Cuckold,  Amit Chaudhuri’s   A New World,  Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop,  Malathi Rao’s  Disorderly Women, Esther David’s The Book of Rachel.    

            The book showcases the articles of esteemed contributors and they are: Kulbhushan Kushal, Indira Nityanandam, Indu Swami, Sangeeta Sharma, Deepak Thakur, N. Chandra, R. Padmavathi, V. Rajesh, J. Jaya Parveen, KBS Krishna, Ambarish Sen, VaniK, Kakali Bhattacharyya, V. Sunitha,  Subhi Tresa Sebastian, Vandana Rajoriya,  Mangalkumar R. Patil, Alka Agrawal,  Grishma Manikrao Khobragade, Vinay Kumar Dubey, Ajit Kumar, Priyanka Vaidya, Bolla Jyothsnaphanija, Ramesh P. Chavan,  Lila Azam Zanganeh, Lakshmi Krishnan, Ambrose Musiyiwa, Rajnish Mishra and  Vivekanand Jha.

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