Writers and Filmmakers from the
Indian Subcontinent
Contemporary Subcontinental Writers in English
- Meena Alexander (Nampally Road, Fault Lines, River and Bridge, The
Shock of Arrival, Manhattan Music)
- Anjana Appachana (Incantations and Other Stories, Listening Now --forthcoming)
- Shauna Singh Bauldwin (English Lessons and Other Stories)
- Sujata Bhatt (Brunizem, Monkey Shadows, The Stinking Rose)
- Vikram Chandra (Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay)
- Upamanyu Chatterjee (English August, The Last Burden)
- Amit Chaudhuri (A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom
Song)
- Gautama Chopra (Child of the Dawn)
- Keki Daruwalla (The Minister for Permanent Unrest and Other Stories
and collections of poems)
- Anita Desai (Clear Light of Day, Baumgartner's bombay, In Custody,
Journey to Ithaca)
- Kiran Desai (Strange Happenings in the Guava Orchard)
- G. V. Desani (All about H. Hatterr, Hali and Other Stories)
- Chitra Divakaruni (Black Candle, Arranged Marriage, The Mistress of
Spices, Leaving Yuba City)
- Indira Ganesan (The Journey, The Inheritance)
- Lalita Gandhbir ( poems, stories in the Massachusetts Review, Toronto
South Asian Review etc.)
- Zulfikar Ghose (The Beautiful Empire, Crump's Terms, A Different World,
Don Bueno [among others])
- Amitav Ghosh (Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land,
The Calcutta Chromosome)
- Sunetra Gupta (Memories of Rain, The Glassblower's Breath, Moonlight
into Marzipan)
- Githa Hariharan ("The Remains of the Feast")
- Ginu Kamani (Junglee Girl)
- Manju Kak (Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary and Other Stories
- Firdaus Kanga (Trying to Grow)
- M. R. Kohli (Struggle, Hope, and Betrayal --novel based on the partition)
- Bhargavi Mandava (Where the Oceans Meet)
- Manorama Mathai (Mulligatawny Soup)
- Amina Meer (Bombay Talkie)
- Gita Mehta (Karma Cola, Raj, A River Sutra, Snakes and Ladders) Ved
Mehta (Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles)
- Rohinton Mistry (Swimming Lessons, Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance)
- Bharati Mukherjee (Wife, The Tiger's Daughter, Jasmine, The Holder
of the World, Leave it to Me)
- Kiran Nagarkar (Ravan and Eddie, Seven Sixes are Forty Three, Cuckold)
- Anita Nair (Satyr of the Subway)
- Kiran Narayan (Love, Stars, and all That)
- Uma Parameswaran (Trishanku, Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees)
- Padma Perera (Coigns of Vantage, Dr. Salaam & other Stories of
India)
- R. Raja Rao (One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City)
- Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things and film scripts for In which
Annie..., Massey Sahib, Electric Moon)
- Salman Rushdie (Grimus, Shame, Midnight's Children, Haroun and the
Sea of Stories, East West, The Moor's Last Sigh)
- Sealy, Allan. (From Yukon to Yucatan: A Western Journey, The Trotter-nama:
A Chronicle)
- Vikram Seth (Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy--the longest modern English
novel)
- Bapsi Sidhwa (The Crow Eaters, Cracking India, An American Brat)
- Sivanandan, A. (When Memory Dies)
- Shashi Tharoor (The Great Indian Novel, Show Business, The Five-dollar
Smile and other Stories, India from Midnight to the Millenium)
- Ardhshir Vakil (Beach Boy)
- M. G. Vassanji (The Gunny Sack, No New Land, Uhuru Street, The Book
of Secrets)
- Abraham Verghese (My Own Country)
- Shashi Warrier (Night of the Krait --described as the first Indian
thriller)
Contemporary Subcontinental Filmmakers
- Erika Surat Anderson (None of the Above, Turbans --based on a short
story by her grandmother Kartar Dhillon)
- Dev Benegal (English August, Split Wide Open, Ravan and Eddie)
- Gurinder Chaddha (Bhaji on the Beach, I'm English but, London, The
Mistress of Spices)
- Tanuja Desai (The Test)
- Nisha Ganatra (Junky Punky Girlz)
- Kaizad Gustad (Lost and Found, Bombay Boys)
- Waris Hussein (A Child's Wish, Trying to Grow among others)
- Srinivas Krishna (Masala, Lulu, Waiting for the Mahatma)
- Avi Luthra (A Family Business) Deepa Mehta (Fire, Earth)
- Mira Nair (So far from India, India Cabaret, Jama Masjid Street Journal,
Saalam Bombay, Mississippi Masala, Kama Sutra)
- Meena Nanji (Voices of the Morning, The Blue Fiction, Nest of Jewels
- Pratibha Parmar (Warrior Marks, The Color of Britain, Khush, Jodie)
- Anand Patwardhan (In the Name of God, Trial by Fire, Hero Pharmacy)
- Udayan Prasad (My Son the Fanatic)
- Madhani Ranghadia (Wedding Sarees) Premika Ratnam (Access Denied)
- Harish Saluja (The Journey)
- Michelle Taghioff (The Parvati Trilogy, Haveli)
- Shashwati Talukdar (My Life as a Poster)
- Nilita Vachani (Eyes of Stone, When Mother comes Home for Christmas)
Websites
on South Asian Literature in English
Indian Writers: http://www.pugmarks.com/week/writers.htm
Indian Literature: http://www.zzone.com/zmagmei/ezmag/elouisst/elouis.htm;
http://www.pugmarks.com/week/authors.htm;
Books by and about South Asian women: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/SAW.books.html
South Asian American Literature: Chai Room: http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~manish/authors.html
Third World Film: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/South.html
Postcolonial Studies Website at Emory
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/
For more information on Indian Subcontinetal writing in English or
Postcolonial Studies, call
Dr. Deepika
Petraglia-Bahri at 727-5114
Postcolonial
Studies at Emory
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