SCILET - Study Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation was started in the early 1980’s in order to show how important Indian Literature in English had already become. ‘English Literature’ no longer means just the literature of England. New literatures in English have sprung up in many parts of the world, and India is one of the major places where this is happening. Our main goal has been to acquaint Indian teachers and students with the wealth of good literature in English produced by their fellow citizens, both resident and expatriate. We hoped in this way that school and college syllabi for literature in English could begin to include more Indian writing so that the study of literature in English would become more relevant to the surroundings in which we live.