vijayjohn wrote:What about literature in Sanskrit, Persian, and...well...English? (Okay, I'll admit the English stuff is generally crappy, but there are some good Indian English works out there. Tagore wrote in English, too, after all!).
Sanskrit literature falls under Indo-Aryan literature that I hope to one day read in Hindi translation. I need another intensive period of Persian study before I can attempt literature in Persian. Hopefully I'll get around to that later this year once I'm satisfied with my Korean level.
As far as Indian English works go, I'm not terribly fond of the genre. To quote Kai Friese about Ghachar Ghochar: "A taste of the virtues of well-translated ‘Indian-language’ fiction over the familiar contortions of ‘Indo-Anglian’ novels or ‘IWE’ or whatever they’re calling it these days.” I am open to reading it here and there though, and I enjoyed The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.