Mulk Raj Anand's two short novels (anniversary commemorative volumne) - Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts and Death of a Hero, will undoubtedly help readers to get acquainted with another challenging side of the celebrated author of Untouchable and Coolie. While Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts, first published in 1938, takes us back to the British colonial India of the modernist era of the thirties, Death of a Hero brings us face to face with the historical realities of the beginnings of free India.
