This anthology consisting of a dozen essays contains valuable observations on Tagore’s Kings in the plays, Sri Aurobindo’s occult short story , Manmohan Ghose’s poetry, a textual study of Harindranath Chattopadhyay’s poems, the form of Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain and why the fable form points to the structure of future fiction-- and revised views on the ending of Narayan’s The Guide n Vivekananda’s incantatory lines.