II. Work on the book

We have a plan in place for this. The key differentiators of the book are:(a) exclusive contributions from select Seminar participants on the most recent works, (b) contributions invited from scholars across the world, (c) responses from select expatriate Indian writers and scholars across the world on the central issues concerning diasporic experience (d) taking stock of the diasporic theory (e)films on Indian diaspora (f)critical discourse not merely on the expatriate Indian writers of the West (Britain, USA, Canada), but also those in the Caribbean, Africa, Far East, Australia, etc. We have enlarged the scope of the book and taken steps to materialise the plan. This might look too ambitious a plan to be actualised within the next two months--the time we have given ourselves. And two months of all-out effort supported by the speed of the internet should make it an entirely possible plan. November end is the time limit by which we expect to crystallise the content and contributors. We have begun work on this plan on September 25, 2005, immediately after the impressive success of the U.G.C. sponsored National Seminar where specialists like Prof. Jasbir Jain, Prof. Manju Jaidka, Dr. Somdatta Mandal, Prof. Vijayashree, Prof. Gopal Rao, Prof. Veena Noble Dass, Dr. R.K. Dhawan, Prof. Vinoda, among others, have taken part. The Seminar put a practical spin on the discourse by including a debate on the book as well as the film text, Anita and Me.