The 1930s was a remarkable decade for Indian writing in English. Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and R.K. Narayan’s Swamy and Friends were published in 1935 and Raja Rao’s Kanthapura followed in 1938 – a year before WWII. Last month, I picked up Raja Rao for the first time and tackled Kanthapura, The Cat and Shakespeare … Continue reading Raja Rao →