LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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The Crisis of Contemporary Indian Identity With Reference to Zulfikar Ghose’s “Decomposition”

S. Selvalakshmi, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate

Zulfikar Ghose, a Multi-faceted Creative Writer

Literature is indeed the most explicit record of the human spirit. It is a medium which the essence of our living is made paramount by linking it to imaginative experience. A creative writer has the perception and the analytic mind of a sociologist who provides an exact record of life, society and social system. Zulfikar Ghose is one such creative writer.

Zulfikar Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. He records human’s happiness and worries in his simple language through various forms of literature. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh realism. While teaching and writing in London from 1963-1969, Ghose also free-lanced as a sports journalist, reporting on cricket for a sport journal “The Observer”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfikar_Ghose)

Zulfikar’s Works

The Loss of India (1964) and Jets From Orange (1965) are his two collections of his poetry published during this period. The Contradictions (1966) and The Murder of Aziz Khan (1969) are his first two novels published in the same period. The Contradictions explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life. In the 1970s, Ghose gained international repute with his trilogy The Incredible Brazilian, which American writer Thomas Berger called “a picaresque prose epic of Brazilian history” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfikar_Ghose)

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S. Selvalakshmi, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
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Department of English
Karpagam University
Coimbatore 641 021
Tamilnadu
India
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