Mulk Raj Anand
Mulkraj Anand (1905-2004) Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English literature notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. He is notable for incorporating Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English. His first main novel “Untouchable” (1935) was a chilling expose of the day-to-day life of a member of Indian’s untouchable caste. For introducing Hindi and Punjabi idioms, Anand is regarded as India’s Charles Dickens. He is one of the pioneers of indo Indo-American fiction together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali and Raja Rao. His first prose essay was a response to the suicide of an aunt in his family who had been ex-communicated by his family for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. The introduction of untouchable is written by E. M. Forster. Forster wrote: “Avoiding rhetoric and circumlocution, it has gone straight to the heart of its subjects and purified it”. He spent half of his life in London and half in India. Geo