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Both works have individuals playing roles under pressure of collective expectation, but
outcomes differ (Narayan’s external forces mock the hero, but Dalal’s hero mocks external
forces) and the hero of the The Inner Door is not as introspective as Raju.
BHATNAGAR, O.P. “A Study of Nergis Dalal as a Novelist” Commonwealth Quarterly
9.28 (1984): 57-72.
Dalal neither strains to be overtly Indian nor affects a Western style. Dalal avoids mass social
movements in favour of individual emotions. Surveys Minari (1967), The Sisters (1973) and
The Inner Door (1973). Dalal seems not to reward virtue and punish vice: withdrawal,
substitutes or compromise are solutions offered to life’s frustrations. Sensitive characters show
the possible merging of sensuousness with spiritual wisdom, though they are not saintly
renouncers of life and are victims to situational ironies. Briefly traces ironies through the short
story collections. Compares Dalal to Anita Desai.
SHARMA, D.R. "The Creative Art of Nergis Dalal" Journal of Indian Writing in English 5.1
(1977):17-23.
Dalmiya, Rita
SAHA, SUBHAS C. "Rita Dalmiya, Renu Roy and Zahida Zaidi" in DWIVEDI, A.N. "Eves'
Song: Contemporary English Verse by Indian Women" Studies in Contemporary Indo-English
Verse: A Collection of Critical Essays. Vol. I Female Poets Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot,
1985: 194-200.
Daniels, Shouri
DANIELS, SHOURI. "Daniels, Shouri: The Salt Doll" Osmania Journal of English Studies 17
(1981):135-7. [review?]
KANTAMBLE, V.D. "The Salt Doll: An Experimentation with Existentialist Writing in Indo-
Anglian Fiction" Littcrit 9.2 (1983):32-39.
Daruwalla, Keki N.
CHAR, M. SREE RAMA. "Secularization of the Religious Concepts and Idiom in Keki N.
Daruwalla's Bombay Prayer's" Poetry 12.1 (1987):19-31.
CHAR, M. SREERAMA. Prayer Motif in Indian Poetry in English Calcutta: Writers
Workshop, 1988, 135 pp.
Concentrates on A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Nissim Ezekiel & Keki N.
Daruwalla.
DWIVEDI, A.N. “K.N. Daruwalla: The Painter of Rural Landscape” Rajasthan University
Studies in English 16 (1984): 86-95.
Descriptive survey of verse in first four volumes dealing with nature (especially rivers)
and rural life, noting mythic and narrative elements in “Crossing of Rivers” and occasional
lapses into rhetoric and sentimentality.
DWIVEDI, A.N. "K.N. Daruwalla's Poetry: An Assessment" in DWIVEDI, A.N ed. Studies
in Contemporary Indo-English Verse Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1984:163-76.