This is a work on literatures written in English as well as critiques on translations of regional literatures in India. There are forty one research papers in this book dealing mainly on contemporary English writers in India. The critical studies are focused on the works of renowned, established Indian writers like Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rabindranath Tagore, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jayanta Mahapatra, Mahesh Dattani, R. K. Narayan, Girish Karnad, Mamta Kalia, Ruskin Bond, Amitav Ghosh, Kamala Das, Jaishree Misra, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Sri Aurobindo, Nayantara Sahgal, Sara Joseph, Stephen Gill, Manoranjan Byapari, and emerging writers like T. V. Reddy, Aju Mukhopadhyay, Asha Viswas, K. V. Dominic, Jaydeep Sarangi, Anu Kumar, Sangeeta Bahadur, Nalini Jameela, Pradip Chattopadhyaya, Tilottama Majumdar, Anjum Hassan, Chanu Sharmila etc.

As literature is the portrayal of an individual s or society s life emotions and experiences the papers in this book depict India s ethos, civilizations, sensibilities, landscapes etc. Thus one can discover contemporary India through this book.