Reading New India by Emma Dawson Varughese

Punam Ramchurn Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival Directorįor Emma’s academic site, please visit. The Karvan added a distinct note to festival, participation and communicated that engagement is for everyone, with special moments happening in the most unique places”. A graduate of one of the top business schools in India, Amish self-published the first volume in his Meluha trilogy, The Immortals of Meluha, centred on the figure of the Hindu renunciate god, Shiva.5 In the initial run, distributed by Chennai-based Westland books, Immor- tals of Meluha sold 30,000 copies. Beyond the Postcolonial (Palgrave, 2012) and Reading New India (Bloomsbury. During 2020 – 2021 KARVAN has received ACE funding for a project called “The Karvan was a lovely installation for Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival 2017, it created an opportunity for people to engage with an artist and to hear stories from across the globe. Independent scholar UK and India Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative.

and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. If you’d like to contact Emma, you can reach her via the Contact page. s Reading New India is the latest instalment in an unusually cohesive body of work that began in 2007 with a rough guide to World Englishes Literature and. Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. She delivers literary-arts workshops globally although most of her work is in India or the UK. Please browse this site for her KARVAN work and for other workshop and consultancy opportunities. Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English. Worldlits began in 2007 with the vision of exploring languages and cultures through world literature and creative practice. The homepage for literary-arts activity, workshops and consultancy by

Reading New India by Emma Dawson Varughese