If you are a Russian writer called Tolstoy, you forever lurk in the great shadow cast by your namesake. After all, what could compare to War and Peace? Now ...
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Studies at Warwick University. His books include Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime (2003), Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English (2010), and Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Epidemics and Literature (2013). Mukherjee is currently researching the relationship between the science policy and science fiction of postcolonial South Asia. 
Singing in the Dark
They came to bury her with praises but, defeated once again by her sheer presence, their words shriveled and rotted in the monsoon damp. As Mahasweta Devi’s dead body lay in a Kolkata hospital on ...