Two of our authors, Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta, have two major academic publications out — Krishna Sobti: A Counter Archive and Joginder Paul: The Writerly Writer respectively.

The titles are a part of the ambitious and groundbreaking ‘Writer in Context’ series being published by Routledge UK and South Asia. Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta also serve as series editors. 

Our congratulations to both.

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With the multiplicity of literary traditions flowing in the pluralistic linguistic domains in India, writers here need to be contextualised appropriately for a comprehensive understanding of their works. The ‘Writer in Context’ series has been conceptualised to facilitate the process. Indian writers in English translations are generally read and taught in India and abroad, without much knowledge of the sociocultural and literary context from which they emerge, and at times rebel against.

Says Sukrita Paul Kumar: “With Chandana Dutta as my series coeditor, as of now, we have planned volumes on 11 post-Independence writers from different Indian languages, to be edited by scholars and critics from different parts of the country. Two volumes, one on Krishna Sobti and the other on the Urdu writer Joginder Paul, have been already published while two are under production. Our objective is to present in each volume the writer’s distinctive features from within his/her linguistic tradition by introducing the reader to the writer’s oeuvre, followed by essays demonstrating the critical reception in the writer’s own language, as also in the wider literary sphere of world literature. Needless to say, the series will bring out the diversity present in Indian literatures.”

More on the series here. https://www.routledge.com/Writer-in-Context/book-series/WIC#