Shashi Deshpande (1938-2016)> Shashi Despande is an award winning Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel "That Long Silence" in 1990. >She was born in "Karnataka" and known as 'Daughter of Kannada'. >She published her first collection of short stories in 1978 and her first novel "the dark holds no terror "in 1980 > She was...

 Sri Aurobindo( 1872- 1950)>Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet.>He introduced his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. He was imprisoned by the British for writing articles against British rule in India. >His main literary works are "The Life Divine" which deals with theoretical aspects of Integral...

 Toru Dutta ( 1856-1877) > Toru Dutt was an Indian poet who wrote in English and French.> She died at a very young age of 21. She was a poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Calcutta.> She translated some sonnets of de Cramont and regarded him as one of the best modern French poets. > She is considered as the "First English writing women of India". >...

 Important Partition Novels1) Train to Pakistan (1956)- Khuswant Singh2) Tamas (1974) - Bhishm Sahini3) A Bend in the Ganges (1965) - Manohar Malgaonkar4) Ice Candy Man (1998) - Bapsi Sidhwa5) Midnight's Children ( 1980) - Salman Rushdi6) Clear Light of the Day - Anita Desai7) Sunlight on a Broken Column(1961) - Attia Hussain8) The Dark Dancer- B. Rajan9) Azadi- Chaman Nahal10)...