CONTENTS:-
I. Rethingking Paradigms:
1. The Plural and the Singular: The Making of Indian Literature
2. Mother Tongue, Other Tongue
3. Indian Literary Criticism Today: The Challenge and the Response
4. Speaking from Below: The Democratic Tradition in Indian Poetry: The New Awakening
5. Between Saints and Secularists: Towards a Composite Paradigm
II. Looking at Praxis:
6. Indian Epics and Dante: Creating Parallel Worlds
7. Revising the Epic: On Sara Joseph's Ramayana Stories
8. My Kabir, My Contemporary
9. Our Times, Our Writings
10. Songs from the Underworld: On the Poetry of Namdeo Dhasal
11. Come and Sec the Blood in the Streets: On the Poetry of J.P. Das
12. Here Life: On Some Poems of Ayyappa Paniker
13. New Challenges, New Voices
III. Crossing the Borders:
14. Sitting on Embers, Dreaming of Flowers: Poetry in South Asia Today
15. Locating the Self: Short stories by South Asian Women
16. The Future of Our Past: Towards a Critique of Globalisation and Culture Industry
17. Will Literature Survive?
