Reading Indian Fiction in English Value Addition Course (VAC)

📖 Course Highlights:
✅ Signature Texts:

• Midnight’s Children (Rushdie)

• The God of Small Things (Roy)

• Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)

• The White Tiger (Adiga)

• Regional Voices (Arundhati Subramaniam, Easterine Kire)

✅ Key Themes:
✔ Postcolonial Identity & Globalization
✔ Caste/Gender in Contemporary Narratives
✔ Urban vs Rural India in Fiction
✔ Comparative Study: Booker Prize vs Regional Language Translations

🎯 Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze literary techniques in Indian English writing

• Connect texts to socio-political contexts (1947/1991 turning points)

• Develop research skills through digital humanities approaches

📚 Unique Pedagogy:
• Author Case Studies: Manuscript drafts to final publications
• Text-to-Film Comparisons: The Namesake (2006) analysis
• Digital Mapping: Story locations across India (QR-linked)

💡 Interdisciplinary Benefits:
🔹 B.Com Students: Understand India’s economic liberalization through fiction
🔹 BA Students: Enhance literary criticism skills
🔹 All Learners: Build cultural competency for global workplaces