Responses to the views of veteran practitioners of literature. Writers discussed are: Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Dostoevsky and Indian writers such as: Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Kamala Das, Nayantara Sahgal, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy, Manu Kapur, Gita Hariharan, Mahesh Dattani, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Indira Goswami.