This course explores the meaning of the term ​“contemporary” in terms of literary and cultural texts from India and how they respond to the time period they emerged in. Texts in the course range from Indian short stories, poems and novels to graphic novels, short films and modernist art. You will also study texts as emerging from ​‘inside’ the nation, ​‘outside’ the nation, and in-between spaces. Alongside the literary texts, the course introduces you to debates and theoretical approaches that particularly address literature in the context of post-colonial India.