Abstract
Review: In November 1965, a Seminar on Fiction and the Reading Public in India was held by the Department of English, as a part of the Lala Lajpat Rai Centenary Committee's programme. This work is a collection of papers read at this Seminar, which fall under four categories: (ij Professors of English writing critical essays about (a) English fiction by Lawrence, Kipling and others, and (b) English fiction written by Indians like K. S. Venkataramani, Raja Rao and women writers like Ruth Prawer Jhabwala, Kamala Markandaya and Santha Rama Rau; (2) Creative writers in four South Indian .'languages giving their critical estimates of fiction in their languages {Kannada by K. Sivaram Karanth; Telugu by Buchi Babu; Malayalam by M. Govindan; and Tamil by Ka. Naa. Subramaniam; critical estimate of the novel in Telugu and Tamil happened to be by two creative writers in diese languages present in the seminar, while the Kannada novel discussed was Gramayana by Rao Bahadur and Malayalam novel Ummachu by Urooli); (3) Two articles on translations from Indian languages into English: one on Kannada by H. Y. Sharada Prasad and one on Hindi by the present reviewer; and (4)Two statements by two creative writers in English, Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan..... Review by: Prabhakar Machwe, Indian Literature, Vol. 13, No. 2 (JUNE 1970), pp. 132
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