Away

<p>For more than a generation Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie Mukerjee Mehta Ghosh Naipaul Kureishi Narayan Mistry among many others.<br>Amitava Kumar himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present <em>Away</em> contains work by the writers mentioned above alongside earlier pieces by Gandhi Nehru and Tagore and a wide range of writers over the last half-century.</p>