Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, Manju Kapur, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shashi Deshpande and Shashi Tharoor have introduced new themes and techniques, adding a rich variety to the corpus of Indian fiction. The present volume is devoted to some of the major themes dealt in the recent novels: mutliculturalism, history-fiction interface, women’s issues, subaltern protest and the resurgent India.