E.Dawson Varughese, author of Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature (2012) is an experienced field researcher of world literature in English. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of short stories from such countries as Cameroon, Uganda and Malaysia. See her work at: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com

• Introduction: From Postcolonial India to New India \ 1.1 'Indianness' since Independence \ 1.2 Literary 'Indianness' \ 1.3 New India, a New Canon \ 2. Urban Scapes \ 2.1 Mumbai \ 2.2 Bangalore \ 3. Chick Lit - Crick Lit \ 3.1 Chick Lit \ 3.2 Crick Lit \ 4. Young India \ 4.1 Call Centres and Corporate Lives \ 4.2 MSMs \ 5. Crime Writing \ 5.1 Female Detectives \ 5.2 Difference and Death \ 6. Fantasy and Epic Myth \ 6.1 New [Fantastical] India \ 6.2 Bharat Fantasy \ 7. Graphic Novels \ 7.1 The Harappa Files (2011) \ 7.2 Kashmir Pending (2007) \ Conclusion: New/Old Stories in Old/New Ways \ Further Reading \ Index.

The splendor and the misery of Reading New India is that it whets the appetite for the fiction it introduces but necessarily fails to satiate the appetite thus awakened.

E.Dawson Varughese, author of Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature (2012) is an experienced field researcher of world literature in English. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of short stories from such countries as Cameroon, Uganda and Malaysia. See her work at: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com

• Introduction: From Postcolonial India to New India \ 1.1 'Indianness' since Independence \ 1.2 Literary 'Indianness' \ 1.3 New India, a New Canon \ 2. Urban Scapes \ 2.1 Mumbai \ 2.2 Bangalore \ 3. Chick Lit - Crick Lit \ 3.1 Chick Lit \ 3.2 Crick Lit \ 4. Young India \ 4.1 Call Centres and Corporate Lives \ 4.2 MSMs \ 5. Crime Writing \ 5.1 Female Detectives \ 5.2 Difference and Death \ 6. Fantasy and Epic Myth \ 6.1 New [Fantastical] India \ 6.2 Bharat Fantasy \ 7. Graphic Novels \ 7.1 The Harappa Files (2011) \ 7.2 Kashmir Pending (2007) \ Conclusion: New/Old Stories in Old/New Ways \ Further Reading \ Index.

The splendor and the misery of Reading New India is that it whets the appetite for the fiction it introduces but necessarily fails to satiate the appetite thus awakened.

E.Dawson Varughese, author of Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature (2012) is an experienced field researcher of world literature in English. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of short stories from such countries as Cameroon, Uganda and Malaysia. See her work at: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com

• Introduction: From Postcolonial India to New India \ 1.1 'Indianness' since Independence \ 1.2 Literary 'Indianness' \ 1.3 New India, a New Canon \ 2. Urban Scapes \ 2.1 Mumbai \ 2.2 Bangalore \ 3. Chick Lit - Crick Lit \ 3.1 Chick Lit \ 3.2 Crick Lit \ 4. Young India \ 4.1 Call Centres and Corporate Lives \ 4.2 MSMs \ 5. Crime Writing \ 5.1 Female Detectives \ 5.2 Difference and Death \ 6. Fantasy and Epic Myth \ 6.1 New [Fantastical] India \ 6.2 Bharat Fantasy \ 7. Graphic Novels \ 7.1 The Harappa Files (2011) \ 7.2 Kashmir Pending (2007) \ Conclusion: New/Old Stories in Old/New Ways \ Further Reading \ Index.

The splendor and the misery of Reading New India is that it whets the appetite for the fiction it introduces but necessarily fails to satiate the appetite thus awakened.