The Indian Literary Diaspora

        Indian literature is a somewhat underrated genre. While not many Americans have read a significant amount, if any, it is incredible none the less. It shows the culture of India distinctly, which is really a combination of ancient Indian culture, middle eastern culture, and British culture. The way that it goes over and talks about Indian politics and feeding you political views without you really knowing it is astonishing. Like Latin American literature, it has all of these layers of complexity to resist the modern predispositions of Indian culture. After partition was the Indian Literary Diaspora, the explosion and spreading of Indian literature. Salman Rushdie and Pico Iyer are popular Indian authors with both similar and different views on the diaspora. Iyer spent twenty years in Japan, as a Buddhist monk. He continued to write books during this time, and they were heavily influenced by Japanese culture. Salman Rushdie lives in Britain, where a large portion of Indian culture came from. He has written for The New Yorker, in which he talks about how Indian literature is normally written in English, even though Hindi is the national language of India. While Indian literature may not be the most popular genre, it certainly holds a place in the grand scheme of things.