Friday, 31 December 1999

Our Torch-Bearers

All India Forum for English Students, Research Scholars and Trainers (AIFEST) wishes to place on record its heartfelt sense of gratitude to our torch-bearers, patrons and guiding stars, but for whom English in India wouldn't have been what it is today, at the turn of the century.


Salman Rushdie

Nayantara Sahgal



Jayanta Mahapatra
Arun Kolatkar
Sashi Deshpande
Bharati Mukherjee
Nissim Ezekiel
Anita Desai
Kamala Das