In this fascinating, informal approach to art appreciation, an eminent Indian scholar reveals the crucial difference between merely looking at and really seeing painting and sculpture, drawing and architecture. And to the open-minded and sensitive observer, he shows how simple perceptions can be transmuted into darshana—the pure delight of union with the inner life of a work of art. The presentation is poetic, not technical, directed toward the general reader rather than the specialist. The author begins by symbolizing certain powers of the imagination as the "seven little-known birds of the inner eye." Then he traces these energies of the "body-soul" through a wide range of aesthetic response—from the first, almost involuntary discriminations lines, colors, and forms to the insights attained by the "third eye" of total vision. Illustrated and discussed are the superb murals and breathtaking architecture of India; ancient symbols and modern experiments; the landscape paintings of Song China and the works of major Western artists.

Mulk Raj Anand, 1905-2004, Indo-English novelist; contributed articles; some previously published.

The Indian Imagination focuses on literary developments in English both in the colonial and postcolonial periods of Indian history. Six divergent writers - Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aurobindo), Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi - represent a consciousness that has emerged from the confrontation between tradition and modernity. The colonial fantasy of British India was finally dissolved in the first half of this century, only to be succeeded by another fantasy, that of the reinstituted sovereign nation-state. This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and the affirmation of identity.

Mulk Raj Anand Was An Indian English Writer Of World Repute. His First Ten Books Were From London. He Has Over 22 Books Of Fiction And A Large Number Of Publications On Art, Education And Culture, And Thousands Of Letters. Only Three Volumes Of His Letters Have Been Published. Some Of His Works Have Gone Out Of Print. The Book Is The First Attempt Of Its Kind To Fill This Gap And Introduce The Author To A Large Readership. Here Is An Earnest Endeavour To Give A ýFeelý Of His Immortal Art And Vision. It Opens With ýThe Lost Childý And Records, In All, 15 Short Stories. Then Selections From 15 Novels Have Been Given. The Final Part Carries Four Letters Of Anand, Culled From Three Anthologies Of Letters.

English Prose and Computer & Writing Skills has been written in accordance with the latest syllabus prescribed for BA Semester 1 for different universities that have adopted the common unified syllabus under National Education Policy 2020. After reading this book, students will be able to understand the basic poetic and prose devices. They will gain knowledge of literary, cultural and historical contexts of 20th and 21st-century literature in English. Students would be easily able to draft formal emails, prepare CVs, file FIRs, RTIs and complaints. This book is sure to get students acquainted with the art of online writing.

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile