IWE Online, an IoE project, is the world’s first Open Educational Resource for Indian Writing in English. Helmed by Anna Kurian and Pramod K Nayar of the Department of English, and inaugurated in April 2022, the OER has now crossed 1 lakh hits. Its YouTube has 1.28 K subscribers now, and its channel has had over 30000 views.
IWE Online is the single authoritative academic web resource for any student or a general reader searching for information on the subject of Indian Writing in India. It includes Literary texts from the major genres in the field, critical and survey essays on major texts, genres and authors and domains, niche essays, audio-visual texts (including poets reading out their work), critical biographies of authors, conversations and interviews. The OER now carries 32 primary texts, 9 survey essays ranging from Indian Children’s Literature in English through Indian Comics to Indian Drama in English, among others, 2 Special Topics, 22 critical biographies, 8 book reviews, 15 portraits, 12 Indian Writers on English [Foreword by K Narayana Chandran], 11 Interviews, 32 resources under various heads, 30+ contributors, 6 artists, and 35+ talks.
A special section ‘Indian Writers on English’ hosts 12 excerpts (by RK Narayan, Agha Shahid Ali, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Tabish Khair, Kynpham Sing Nongkynri, Salman Rushdie, P. Lal, Ramachandra Guha, Amit Chaudhuri) and a Foreword by Professor K Narayana Chandran. Special topics include ‘English Writing from North East India’ and ‘The Medical/Health Humanities’. A Resources page includes links to various archives, interviews of various authors and their sites.
The editorial board for IWE Online consists of K Narayana Chandran (UoH, retd), Graziano Krätli (Yale) and Nandana Dutta (Gauhati), and Atul Nair of the Department of English serves as its editorial assistant.