Synopsis Salman Rushdie has earned widespread acclaim, both in India and abroad and recognised among the literary jewels of the world: Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamla Markandey, Anita Desai, R.P. Jhabvala, Kuswant Singh, Vikram Chandra, Arundhiti Roy, Vikram Seth and most of others. The book widens the critical responses on the novelist and further unlits the hidden corners of Indo-English fiction, and assigns due place to Salman Rushdie in the field of fiction writing.