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...reason may be partly sociological. "Most of the writers who are using the English language belong to a very, very microscopic section of the country, which is fairly divorced from what the country is actually about," says Raj Kamal Jha, 33, a novelist and editor with a regular paycheck from the Indian Express in New Delhi...
...Jha's The Blue Bedspread (Random House; 209 pages; $21.95) illustrates that observation by dealing artfully with unchallenged male mayhem directed at women. Jha, who escaped a career in mechanical engineering to study journalism at the University of Southern California, frames his story in a series of impressionistic and quietly menacing scenes. The technique works, but some may find the tableaux approach somewhat oblique...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...
Other panelists were: Pankaj Ghemawat '71, a professor at the Business School, who discussed aspects on "Economic Reform in a Democracy"; and Prem Shankar Jha, former adviser to the government of India and one of the most prominent economic journalists in India today...
...Jha's address, titled, "Corruption and the Cleansing of the Democratic Process" addressed the complexities of sustaining democracy in India...