There is no denying the fact that India’s contribution to world literature is very old, vast and diverse. It started as early as the spiritual texts like Vedas, philosophical texts like Upanishads, verse epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata – all in Sanskrit. While it is impossible to compress in this short piece, all that the Indians in the past have contributed in Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali or other languages, we can focus our attention on the English literature of our times, since English is the widely prevalent medium of literary expression in the world today and India is the third largest producer of books in English.