Or in the present tense as opposed to the past. Or a very long novel as opposed to a short one. This past year's been seen as some sort of a high noon of Indo-Anglian writing. Well at least in India, with The God of Small Things and all that. It's just a bit of coincidence that three or four books should come out.
People tend to see trends like 'high noon' and 'midnight' and so on.
No, I don't. They're such different writers. It is true in a general sense that people are much more confident of using English today. Actually, I don't read a lot of fiction. There's this rivalry with Salman Rushdie that people are talking about since your books are coming out within a week of each other.