Arun Joshi- Makers of Indian Literature

Arun Joshi (1939-1993) attracted critical attention with his very first novel The Foreigner (1965). Educated abroad in engineering and industrial management studies, his interests spread to psychology and anthropology. Each one of his novels experiments with a new form and engages with a different construct ranging from moral values, nation construction, civilisational concerns, spirituality and heritage, and the ethics of the capitalist world. His work straddles across two worlds, one of imagined realities and the other of industry and industrial ethics. Joshi's work makes us pause and think afresh over the meaning of art and its moral essence as he questions and redefines the meaning of the modern, bringing it right into our everyday concerns.

Jasbir Jain, an independent critic, is the recipient of the 2008 South Asian Literary Association Award for distinguished scholarship and the 2003 IACS Award for outstanding contribution. Jain's major interests are in theory and ideology, third world literatures and the aesthetics of narratology in literature and films. Amongst her publications are Beyond Postcolonialism: The Dreams and Realities of a Nation (2006) and Crossing Borders: Post 1980s Subcontinental Writing (2009).

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