This book is an incisive exposition of the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature. Seeking to foreground subjectivity through literary expressions of intense emotionality, whether suffering, humiliation, creativity or strife, the work also raises the timely question of the relation of justice and speech. Some of the authors studied include Tagore, Saratchandra, KR Meera, Urmila Pawar, Agyeya, Ismat Chughtai and Krishna Sobti.