We Indians have outshined and outnumbered in every other field. whether we work as Doctors or Engineers, Scientists, or as building artists and authors. We Indians are never off the field.
so here, I am going to discuss some of the famous Indian authors and their works that have not only shined on Indian platform but have also shined nationally across the World.
1. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin by Manu S. Pillai
A collection of awe-inspiring short stories from the depths of Indian history, mainly digging out anecdotes and tales of Indian women who have been obscured, hidden, or simply forgotten. A brilliant read.
also, there's a Gandhi and Nehru or Gandhi and Periyar — truly absorbing and appealing to the analytical recesses of the brain. What If The Mahatma Had Lived? finds a strained parallel in a recent piece by author Ramchandra Guha on the unilateral abrogation of Article 370. He has stated that had Gandhi been alive, he would have been horrified that the government had ignored the wishes of the people of Kashmir while scrapping the very provision that had linked this unique state with the mainland.
2. The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond
The Blue Umbrella is a 1980 Indian novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was adapted into 2005 Hindi film by the same name, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which later won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. In 2012, the novel was adapted into a comic by Amar Chitra Katha publications, titled, The Blue Umbrella – Stories by Ruskin Bond, and included another story, Angry River.
The Story is located in a small village called Garhwal, there lived a little girl. In the village, the shopkeeper, keeps an old useless shop and sells warm Coca-Cola bottles and sweets to the school going, kids. A beautiful blue umbrella has been given to the girl by some foreigners on a picnic in the hills in exchange for her leopard claw pendant. The people in her village have become very fond of her umbrella. Soon the shopkeeper becomes jealous and tries to buy it from the girl by telling her that "this is a fancy umbrella which small girls should not have", but the girl refuses to give her umbrella and says that, "This is not for sale." As time passes, the shopkeeper's feeling to get the umbrella turns in to an obsession.
now the plot is all set about whether the shopkeeper gets the umbrella in the end ? or did the girl eventually gave it up because of sympathy or something.
3. Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sister of My Heart is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. First published in 1999, this novel was followed in 2002 by a sequel The Vine of Desire.
The story centers on the lives of two Indian girls, Anju and Sudha. The girls use their own voices to narrate the story of their lives. In alternating chapters, the reader closely follows the lives of Sudha and Anju through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Although some of the characters immigrate to the United States, most of the story is set in India. Indian traditions and culture are part of the rich environment portrayed in the novel and the descriptions of Calcutta are especially vivid. Sister of My Heart is a story about family, friendship, and the bond between sisters.
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… was the greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British—in famines, epidemics, communal riots, and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919.
In this explosive book, bestselling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India. Besides examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, ranging from the drain of national resources to Britain, the destruction of the Indian textile, steel-making and shipping industries, and the negative transformation of agriculture, he demolishes the arguments of Western and Indian apologists for Empire on the supposed benefits of British rule, including democracy and political freedom, the rule of law, and the railways.
The few unarguable benefits—the English language, tea, and cricket—were never actually intended for the benefit of the colonized but introduced to serve the interests of the colonizers. Brilliantly narrated and passionately argued, An Era of Darkness will serve to correct many misconceptions about one of the most contested periods of Indian history.
5. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again, Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.
The book begins with the story of the Sinai family, particularly with events leading up to India's Independence and Partition. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, 15 August 1947, therefore, exactly as old as independent India. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 a.m. and 1 a.m. on that date are imbued with special powers. Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a Midnight Children's Conference, reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political differences faced by a vastly diverse nation. Saleem acts as a telepathic conduit, bringing hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact while also attempting to discover the meaning of their gifts. In particular, those children born closest to the stroke of midnight wield more powerful gifts than the others. Shiva "of the Knees", Saleem's nemesis, and Parvati, called "Parvati-the-witch," are two of these children with notable gifts and roles in Saleem's story.
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