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This book comprises eleven essays on secular concept of education in India and its propagator Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya, Nissim Ezekiel-the father of ´New´ poetry in Indian English and various fiction writers in Indian subcontinent from ´triumvirates´ to modernists/contemporaries viz. Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Kamla Markandeya, Shashi Deshpande, Siddharth Gigoo and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. These authors represent various significant aspects of post-Independence India and aftermath cultural sensibility and their relevance is both intrinsic and historical. Though never planned as parts or chapters of a book, these essays are marked by a uniformity of theme and objective in that they deal with the issues of cultural encounters what has now been universally acknowledged as trends and traditions of subcontinent of India.

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Dr. Manjari Jhunjhunwala did postgraduation in English Literature from Banaras Hindu University with BHU Gold Medal in 2000 and received Ph.D in 2009 for the topic "Cultural Aspects of Nissim Ezekiel´s Poetry". In 2006 she joined Vasanta College for Women, Rajghat, Varanasi as Assistant Professor in English. Her first book was published in Germany.

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