LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy -
An Approach to the Society

A. Vijayalakshmi M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.)
R. Padmavathi, Ph.D.

Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

A large number of Indian writers in English of the post-1980’s boom either lived outside the Indian subcontinent or have spent considerable years abroad as part of the diasporic migration. The work of such writers is open to contradictory interpretations and critical responses. They are, more often than not, appreciated for their extra-literary circumstances. This is particularly so in Vikram Seth’s case.

The publication of The Golden Gate (1986) – Seth’s first Indian novel in verse made an immediate sensation in 1986. A Suitable Boymade publishing history in 1993, by attracting unprecedented attention from all quarters and by placing it on track for the highest honor – Noble Prize. All the national newspapers vied with each other to mark him out as “a writer with the golden pen, […] a writer with a golden touch, […] and a possible genius” (qtd. in Kumar).

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A. Vijayalakshmi M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
Assistant Professor in English
Karpagam College of Engineering
Myleripalayam
Coimbatore 641 032
Tamilnadu
India
aviji79@gmail.com

Dr. R. Padmavathi, Ph.D.
Reader in English
Department of English
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
Coimbatore 641 004
Tamilnadu
India
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