Life lives in the form of Literature. Without this, life ceases to exist. It is an embodiment of words based on human tragedies, desires, and feelings. It cultivates wonders, inspires a generation, feeds information and is the foundation of humanity’s cultures, beliefs, and traditions. And so, our today’s topic of discussion is Indian Literature.
Indian Literature after Independence of the country witnessed some major changes in terms of literary writings. Indian independence may be a historic event for its socio-political significance, but according to some writers, this event has had an outstanding impact on the creative writing done in various regional languages of the writers. India's nationalism at the point before independence was a nationalism of grief and mourning. Thus, most of the new age writers through their writings portrayed the terrible fake world that was based on the western modernism. However, in a country like India, the vast culture of the past does not go off completely. With the independence of the country the cultural rhythm of the past certainly broke down as a result of modernistic experimentations.
Post-independence India did see greater awareness on the part of the reading public as well as the government of the existence of many more and richer languages and literatures, beyond the limited periphery of one's own mother-tongue or province. Some states entered a big way by giving prizes and awards and much translation work was encouraged. Writers received the opportunity of visiting new places and publicise their works. All this, with all its limitations, did stimulate a literary climate. Further, the industrial and scientific advancement throughout the country after independence also had an impact on Indian literature. Interestingly, the post-independence literature of the country showed signs that permanent literature springs out of great tragedy.
As India has belief in secularism it has various feats in the literature as below: