Mukul kesavan biography of william

Mukul Kesavan is the author of Looking Through Glass (Farrar, Straus, Giroux: New York, 1994) and is working on his second novel (a chapter of which is included in The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-97).
At about the same time as the Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers met in Delhi last winter I was there looking up people who had recently published on the subject of Partition.

Fifty years were up and I was curious to know what Indian debates were occurring on Partition.

Mukul kesavan biography of william

One of the people I contacted in this regard is Mukul Kesavan.
Along with Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh Mukul Kesavan is among the first rank of Indian writers writing novels in English. His first novel Looking Through Glass, a bestseller in Delhi when it came out two years ago, I would call a ‘Partition novel’.

Most of the novel is set in the period between 1942, the year of the Quit India Movement, and 1947, the ye