CLASS 9
THE LOST CHILD
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Lewis Caroll
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J K Mehta
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R K Narayan
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Mulk Raj Anand
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Detailed explanation-1: -Amrik Singh, the author of this volume got to know Mulk Raj Anand in 1938 and remained in touch with him all his life. During his long career, he has been a teacher, an educational administrator, an author of several books on educational policy, a playwright in Punjabi and also a human rights activist.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote perhaps the first book by an Indian in English, called The Travels of Dean Mahomed .
Detailed explanation-3: -That novel turned out to be his seminal debut book, Untouchable (1935), about the struggles and humiliations faced by a toilet cleaner named Bakha. After the rather humiliating taunt about what would come to be his first novel, Anand travelled to Ireland and met poets George Russell and W.B. Yeats.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand passed away at the grand old age of 98 last September. He was arguably the greatest exponent of Indian writing in English, whose literary output was infused with a political commitment that conveyed the lives of India’s poor in a realistic and sympathetic manner.