The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997
by Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth West, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, G. V. Desani, Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealey, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai
Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.