This book honours Jane Austen’s legacy through essays exploring Indian responses to her fiction
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Jane Austen’s stories belong to all. But do we therefore need yet another book on Austen? Over the last 200 years, haven’t readers and critics said all that could possibly have been said about a writer of a mere half a dozen complete works? Haven’t we extracted every ounce of meaning out of her works the way the roadside vendor in India squeezes every drop of juice from the sugar cane? Aren’t the Austen fan clubs across the world keeping her on a ventilator and refusing to let her go? What more remains to be said about her or her works?
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One is tempted into appealing to the one holding this book right now, the way Austen did appeal to her readers in some of her works: “Dear Reader, please stay on. Austen is like that perennial well that always holds fresh water for whoever is pulling from it.”