The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor English Literature Essay
In this literary essay, Ramlal Agarwal talks about Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel and how the text of the epic is twisted beyond recognition, making it a disappointing experience for the reader. Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel has received critical acclaim in India and abroad and is now in its fifth edition. In this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor masterfully recreates the two-thousand-year-old epic The Mahabharata, featuring fictionalized but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Tharoor combines history and myth and directs his satire against both Indian weaknesses and the bungling of the British rulers. Shashi Tharoor is a Member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. Tharoor has written numerous books in English. Most of his literary creations are centered on Indian themes and they are distinctly 'Indo-nostalgic'. Perhaps his best-known work is The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor. A collection of semi-autobiographical essays on the literary world includes the title piece, which highlights the challenges modern Iraqis face in acquiring books, and additional writings on topics such as the persecution suffered by historical literary masters and the impact of globalization. By the author of Nehru.Shashi Tharoor is a Member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. Tharoor has written numerous books in English. Most of his literary creations are centered on Indian themes and they are distinctly 'Indo-nostalgic'. Perhaps his best-known work is The Great Indian Novel, 6, reviews. Writing in English, Shasi Tharoor has produced a stunning novel that is at once ambitious, daring, brutally satirical and wickedly funny. The two structural pillars of his astonishing work are the national epic, the Mahabharata, and the Indian struggle in this century for independence from Britain..