About the Book: Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature
A Lively and Thought-provoking Collection of Writings About Life and Literature
For more than forty years, Shashi Deshpande has—as a novelist, short story
writer, essayist, memoirist and public figure (in short, as a concerned and
engaged citizen)—audibly contributed to the lively public debates on the role of
the writer and writing in India and to an of Indias contemporary social,
literary and political issues. She has not been reluctant to insert critical and
dissenting notes into the public discourse of her nation. The essays in this
volume constantly remind us that Deshpande is first and foremost a reader