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Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature (A festschrift to Shri C.V. Seshadri, Prof. Of English, Annamalai university) is a humble attempt to present Indian responses to Commonwealth Poetry, Fiction, Short Story, Drama and Autobiography. The 21 contributors (working in various universities in India), have made this book precious by way of their fruitful research and findings. Indian poets like Shiv K. Kumar, Nissim Ezekiel, Tamil Sangam Poets have been taken by 3 contributors. Kamala Das has been analysed as an Indian Autobiographer by an academic. Indian novelists like Mulk raj Anand, raja rao, jai Nimbkar and Basavaraj Naikar have been dealt with by four researchers. Indian Dramas of Vijay tendulkar, Girish karnad and tagore have been assessed by 5 contributors. The west Indie poet Derek Walcott, Bangladesh novelist Taslima nasrin, New Zealand short story wtier Ihimaera; African novelist Nadine Goprdimer, dramatist Mugo are taken for study by five academics. Niogerian short story writers ben Ori Adewale maja-Pearce and Okey Chogbo, Ibeoma Okoye, zay ab Alkali, Sheila Fugard, Bessie Head and dramatist Ngugi Wa Thiang and Micere Githal Mugo have been estimated by three academics. The twenty one critical essays throw more light on the different aspects of Commonwealth Literature in a lucid and appreciable style, which can be really useful to the students, researchers, and teachers of Commonwealth Literature. Do you like to have a glimpse of the literature of Africa, Bangla desh, India, new Zealand, Nigeria and the west Indies?