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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
We are made to assume, by the available works on the history of Indian writing in English, that all the writers of yesteryears have been identified, analyzed and assessed exhaustively and nothing more remains to be explored. However, there have been several Indian writers who wrote good amounts of literature in English, but still, the literary world is not aware of such writers and their works. This book introduces four such unknown Indian writers in English, who deserve to be recognized, honoured and brought to the mainstream academia. The irony is that the writers introduced in this book are not strangers! They are reputed and renowned in Kannada literary terrains but are unknown as English writers in India.
Dr. Udayaravi Shastry
Dr. Udayaravi Shastry has been working as an Associate Professor of English in Kalpataru College for over 32 years. He has also served as a guest faculty in the post-graduation centres of Bangalore, Mysore and Tumkur Universities. He has been guiding PhD scholars from several universities of South India. Dr. Udayaravi Shastry has presented more than thirty-five research papers in national and international conferences both in India and abroad.
He has served as an Associate Professor of English in Al-Fetah University, Tripoli, Libya for an year. Savvy English Savi and Mojigagi English are his two volumes published in Kannada, in the ‘Recreational Linguistics Series’. Resistance Studies is his edited anthology of research articles on Subaltern Studies. He is in the editorial board of the journal Research Scholar, an international refereed journal.
Dr. Udayaravi Shastry is a recipient of the state-level BOLT award for the year 2003, for his excellence in teaching. He is an (FRAS) elected fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of England and Ireland. He is an IAO-certified teacher. His specialization is Applied Linguistics. He has set a record of 160 points in “Thatt antha heli” a Kannada quiz programme in 2013.
