• Dr. Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri)

‘Indianness’ is often used as an umbrella term in order to cluster poets of Indian origin writing in English despite their diverse contents, styles and locations. This pan-Indian quality which is non-existent in reality and is a figment of imagination, attaining almost a mythical stature, needs to be interrogated. This article explores the different types of ‘Indianness-es’ that poets writing from geo-political locations exterior to the country engage with. These differences counter the imaginary monolith of ‘India’. Drawing upon Nico Israel’s theoretical concepts of “exilic emplacement” and “diasporic self-fashioning”, I show how the pluralist versions of the place and the space called ‘India’, in R. Parthasarathy’s poem “Exile” and Agha Shahid Ali’s poem “A Post Card from Kashmir”, create a “metaperspective” (Françoise Král). This singularity and difference go into the making of diverse ‘Indianness-es’.

"Diverse ‘Indianness-es’: Reading Different Indian Identities in R. Parthasarathy’s and Agha Shahid Ali’s Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.1238-1250, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103171.pdf

"Diverse ‘Indianness-es’: Reading Different Indian Identities in R. Parthasarathy’s and Agha Shahid Ali’s Poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp1238-1250, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103171.pdf