Shilpa Gupta

Negotiating Tradition, Modernity and Independence: A Postcolonial Reinterpretation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy (1993) provides an extensive picture of India in the years that followed independence. The novel is Salted against the political, social and cultural changes of the early 1950s. It brings pleasure to readers with the conflict between civilizational traditions of the past and the aspirations...