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The term Indian Writing in English is given to the body of work of writers in India who write in the English language and whose mothertongue is usually one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of the Indian diaspora like Salman Rushdie. As a category, this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature- the production from previously colonised countries such as India.

The debate on Indian writing in English is always fresh and worthy of heated arguments- the chief one being the superiority/ inferiority of Indian Writing in English as opposed to the literary production in the various languages of India. Key polar concepts that are bandied in this context are creativity/imitation, shallowness/depth, critical/ uncritical and so on.

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