Part One: Looking at Paradigms
THE PLURAL AND THE SINGULAR The Making of Indian Literature/
THE MODERN AND THE DEMOCRATIC Indian Poetry after Independence/
MOTHER TONGUE, THE OTHER TONGUE Indianising English/
INDIAN LITERARY CRITICISM TODAY The Challenge and the Response/
INDIAN LITERATURE Nativism and its Ambivalences/
SEX, TEXT, POLITICS Women's Writing in India-Problems of Reading/
IMAGINED COMMUNITIES Collective Aspirations in Contemporary Indian Poetry/
OF MANY INDIAS Alternative Nationhoods in Contemporary Indian Poetry/
THAT THIRD SPACE Interrogating the Diasporic Paradigm/
THE POLITICS OF REREADING The Indian Context/
TRANSLATION AS WRITING Text, Translation, Authenticity-Towards an Indian Perspective/

Part Two: Authors and Texts

ANOTHER LIFE, ANOTHER POETICS Bhakti, the First Movements/
STRATEGIES OF SUBVERSION Sramana Elements in Sarala Dasa's Mahabharata/
I THINK OF THE ENDS OF THINGS Some Reflections on Ghalib's Modernity/
MY KABIR, MY CONTEMPORARY/
THE PATHOGRAPHY OF NATIONALISM Tagore's Critique of the Idea of the Nation/
SARATCHANDRA CHATTERJEE AND THE DYNAMICS OF RECEPTION/
AGAINST THE GRAIN The Role of Memory in A.K. Ramanujan's Poetry/
TRANSCENDING THE BODY On the Poetry of Kamala Das/
ON THE LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini', a case study/
THE TERROR OF THE BLANK PAGE A Reading of Sitakant Mahapatra's 'The Other View: Yashoda's Soliloquy'/
BETWEEN TWO CULTURES On Two Poems of Kedarnath Singh/
SONGS FROM THE UNDERWORLD The Poetry of Namdeo Dhasal/