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Meena Alexander. Fault Lines: A Memoir. New York. Feminist Press. 1993. xii + 226 pages, ill. $35 ($12.95 paper).
Traditionally, Indian writers have fought shy of talking about themselves, and of the great classical writers of India like Kalidasa we know very little. Under the increasing impact of the West, however, more and more Indian writers, mostly Indo-Anglian writers, have been recording their life histories. Autobiographies and memoirs of Indian writers who write in English have now become a familiar and accepted fact of twentieth century India, and the age at which they write their memoirs is decreasing, raising a question about the value of a work which...