The novelist Mulk Raj Anand often spoke of the double burden carried by Indian writers who choose English as their literary language. On the one shoulder, Anand contended, sat the Alps of European tradition, and on the other shoulder, the Himalayas of...

(b. 1905), Indian writer. An influential Indian novelist and short story writer in the mid-twentieth century, Mulk Raj Anand was born in 1905 in Peshawar, now in western Pakistan, and as a young man was active in literary circles in England until 1939....

Mulk Raj Anand (December 12, 1905 - September 28, 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K....

Swimwear Maker Relies on Technology in Uncertain Times Tustin-based Raj Manufacturing Inc., one of the nation's largest swimwear companies, thanks technology for helping it ride out an uncertain time this winter. "The key in our industry is to manage inventory," said Alex...

Are there tourists in Lahore? Not on the hot summer day when I made my first sally into its streets. This is Pakistan's cultivated antidote to the severity of Islamabad, and it's the most picturesque of Islamic cities - where Kipling cut his teeth...

In the following essay, Harrex focuses on theme and structure in Anand's fiction, noting a close relationship between form and moral-social ideology.

An Indian-born Canadian educator, novelist, screenwriter, and critic, Cowasjee is the author of So Many Freedoms: A Study of the Major Fiction of Mulk Raj Anand (1977) and The Last of the Maharajas (1980), a screenplay based on Anand's The Private Life of an Indian Prince. In the following essay, Cowasjee examines The Private Life of an Indian Prince, focusing on the novel's characters and structure.

In the following essay, Pallan discusses the quest of "being" and "becoming" as presented in The Bubble.