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When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

When Women Step Out Of Indian Epics To Express Real Desires And Choices In Real Books

by The Daily Eye Team May 19 2015, 4:51 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 38 secs

The Indian novel writing tradition is by and large a post colonial phenomenon. Right from one of the first novels in English written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to the deluge of novels written, published and consumed today, the Indian novel tradition has traversed a long distance in terms of scope and expanse. While we have had novel writing in various languages and dialects of the country, we have also had a defined canon of “Indian Writing in English” taught at universities and colleges in India. Translation of novels from regional languages into English has been continuously shifting the boundaries of Indian writing and destabilising the appropriation of representative Indian novels within the elitist definition of a “canon”.

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O.P. Srivastava


OP Srivastava is a career banker. His first feature documentary, Life in Metaphors, won the National Award for Best Biopic in 2015. In 2019, his first book, Life in Metaphors: Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, was released. Followed by Banking on Technology (2020), Krishna Calling (2021) and Pillars of Parallel Cinema in April, 2022. He also runs a not-for-profit initiative, ‘Oorjaa’, for making and propagating ‘Cinema for a Cause’. In February 2023, he completed a fiction film ‘Banwari Ki Amma’, which was written, directed and produced by him.


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