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Anita Desai and Arun Joshi occupy a special place in the history of Indo-English novels. It is necessary to focus on the two novelists in the post-Independence era since they redefine the Indian novel after the novels of the Gandhian age. It is true that the social problems tackled by Mulk Raj Anand or R. K. Narayan’s representation of the social and moral subtleties of Indian life, Raja Rao’s philosophical insight into the East-West encounter do not suffice or cover the entire gamut of social-economic, psychological, moral and spiritual aspects of the post-colonial India. Though the problems of colonial India, before Independence, Were grappled by the panacea of truth and non-violence, the entire transformation of the social situation and the revolution in the world-view had to be faced in other ways, in other modes of art and other attitudes and perspectives.