Beyond the Guilt: Revising the postcolonial syllabus by Sumana Roy

The very wonderful Sumana Roy, who has to her credit brilliant works like Missing, A Novel and How I Became A True, and Animalica Indica amongst others , has written this on point essay in The Point, about post colonial Indian writing in English seems to be weighed down by the need to inform, to educate, even I dare say at times, to be moralistic or performative.

I am delighted to be mentioned in it, for my usual frothing at the mouth over some books I found unreadable but have been much lauded. Nothing for or against them, but they didn’t give me joy or catharsis and that is the one thing I look for when I read.

Read the entire essay here