LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Writings of Manohar Malgonkar
With Special Reference to
A Bend in the Ganges

Dr. K. Balamurugan
Dr. N. Rajesh
Dr. S. Thirunavukkarasu

Introduction

Indian English Literature has grown slowly and steadily in the twentieth century attracting the critical attention of diligent academicians all over the world.

One of India's foremost English writers, Manohar Malgonkar, breathed his last on 16 June 2010 at Jagalpet in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district. He was 97. With his passing away, the last remaining links with the British Raj are slowly wearing away.

Manohar Malgonkar was born in 1912 and had his education in Bombay where he graduated in English and Sanskrit. Manohar could trace his lineage to the royal family with roots in Goa. After graduation, he took to big game hunting and shot eight tigers. However, he soon gave up the sport and became a staunch conservationist of wild life.

He joined the Army and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was part of counter espionage department and was a member of the General Staff in Indian Army. He left the Army after the Second World War and soon took to writing. Though he dabbled in politics, yet his first love was writing. At the age of 47 he wrote his first novel Distant Drums. The book won good reviews as Manohar made good use of his army experience in writing the book. The book laid bare the spirit of the Indian soldier and many consider Distant Drums an epitaph for the British Indian Army.

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Dr. K. Balamurugan
M.A., M.Phil., PGCTE, MBA, PGDTM, B.LISc, M.A., Ph.D.
MISTE, MIATEFL(UK), MCCELT(Canada) MELTAI
Professor of English
Bharathiyar College of Engineering & Technology
Karaikal 609 609
Union Territory of Puducherry
India
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Librarian
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India
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Dr. S. Thirunavukkarasu, M.A., M.Phil., PGDTE, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Professor of English
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Karaikal 609 609
Union Territory of Puducherry
India
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