CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• SHIRLEY CHEW

ARTICLES

• JANET TODD, A Long Long-distance Friendship
• AAMER HUSSEIN, ‘The Cry at Dawn’: On Rereading Cry, the Peacock
• INDRANI KARMAKAR & CLAIRE CHAMBERS, Writing the Mother in Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer?
• TABISH KHAIR, The Brilliant Illumination of Fire on the Mountain
• BRITTA OLINDER, Anita Desai and the ‘Spirit of Place’ KRISHNA SEN, Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay: Urban Mindscapes and the Urban Imaginary in Anita Desai’s Fiction
• ANJUM HASAN, The Unclaimed: Anita Desai and the Story of Indian English Literature
• WERNMEI YONG ADE, The Absurd, Exile, and the Beginning of Ethics in Fasting, Feasting

FICTION

• AAMER HUSSEIN, Lady of the Lotus
• ANJUM HASAN, The Lady with the Dog

REVIEW

• by MATTHEW PATEMAN

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS