The Fiction of St. Stephen's

Author: Aditya BhattacharjeaLola Chatterjee/Publisher: Ravi DayalYear: 2000Language: EnglishPages: 229ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175300302 DescriptionA many-sided, multilayered scrutiny of not only a particular generation of novelists, but of young writers, experimenting with a generous and accommodating medium.In the wake of Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, a curious literary phenomenon came to notice: a spate of novels in English by Indian writers, all educated at Delhi's St. Stephen's College. The novelists include Amitav Ghosh and I Allen Sealy. Others such as Upamanyu Chatterjee, Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Kesavan, Anurag Mathur and Rukun Advani, wrote novels which continue to excite admiration, criticism, debate, hostility, and revulsion. What cannot be doubted is that all these writers and several others were contemporaries, sometimes good grinds, within the same institution. Do these writers represent a cabal nurtured within an elite educational club? Was there really somethin