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What is your take on the English versus Non-English Indian Writing:
The debate continues. Sri Salman it must be admitted did let the cat among the pigeons. Umbrage being taken even with words "vernacular" and "regional"...
Poll Started on:2/16/2002 4:33:31 PM



Do you think the Nobel Prize to Naipaul was deserved?

Poll Started on:10/13/2001 5:42:53 PM



Do you generally agree with the concept of 'creative' biographies?
In recent days, from Katherine Frank's Indira Gandhi to Natalia Prigarina's Ghalib, there have been charges of creative inventions. Do you think it is an acceptable trend?
Poll Started on:7/28/2001 6:55:42 PM



Which book do you think deserves to win the Crossword Book Prize?

Poll Started on:3/17/2001 8:44:35 PM



Your favourite Indian Writer in English:
So Naipaul is not IWE. But who is your favourite of the IWE?
Poll Started on:2/6/2001 3:23:11 PM



Are Indian writers all that good?
The Death of Vishnu. One more story of an astronomical sum being paid to an Indian writer. Is Manil Suri, the mathematician from Maryland, worth all the money he is getting?
Poll Started on:1/9/2001 7:39:18 PM



Are Indian writers in English any good?
Indians put up a bad show at the Booker this year with both the nominees not making to the finals. The Indian entries may have been inferior in comparison. Or it could be that the hype about Indian writing in English is a part of the grand design of the market forces. What do you think?
Poll Started on:11/17/2000 4:11:51 PM


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Favourite Indian Writer in English. Arundhati? Rushdie? Seth? Ghosh? Chatterjee? Anyone? No one?

"Regional Writers" Do we even read them ever?

Da Vinci Code: Phony scholarship or controversial because it rakes up history?

Poetry: Let's talk about our favourites. English or translated. Or the untranslatables.

Waffle of the toffs: Do IWE "Pander to the West"?

So long and thanks for the fish: Remembering Douglas Adams

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