Indian-born novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh have exorcised Priestley and Tennyson for good from the bookshelves of even the remotest Indian town. Yet I am glad for having been raised in the ancien régime.
Authors Aravind Adiga
Mark Pringle
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…he’s stressed the more shocking aspects of society too much. He tends to rub it in a bit.
Aravind Adiga
Nadine Gordimer
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I studied English literature—a lot of Elizabethan drama—at university, and wanted to write a novel about India that would be vivid, political, and funny, like The Duchess of Malfi set in Delhi.
Aravind Adiga’s opinions on others
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I wish I could write like Amis. He strikes me as the most Dickensian writer around, in terms of style. He’s astonishingly good [in his] native command of sentence structure. On the other hand, he often forgets that he has to tell a story.
Martin Amis
The White Tiger