This combination - of grit and elegy - is new in modern Indian writing.

"He's been here a year or so, trying to work out the Indian writing."

There is a lot of very good Indian writing on cricket.

He was asked to contribute to Penguin's book of 'new' Indian writing in 2005.

"It says here that you were a pioneer of modern Indian writing."

His book displays a world rarely seen in modern Indian writing, revealing a detailed knowledge of the heartland that can result only from personal experience.

"Indian writing is surfacing today in a big way, and it's something we would like to make readers aware of."

An overlooked category of Indian writing in English is poetry.

"And did you show him the Indian writing also?"

Yet on the wall above there was Indian writing.