A small autonomous group of India critics is now organizing a survey questioning critics in all the critical languages across India about their methods and views. The individual responses offered to the questionnaire are posted initially on this website in a searchable form to facilitate more producitive communication and collective self-awareness among us all. However the ultimate aim is a published book providing specific information about what and how criticism is going on in India today, what possible issues and problems there may be and some responses to them, and whatever other information might help to increase communication and community among Indian critics.
   This self-funded, non-profit project stems from the belief that knowledge of and improved communication among fellow Indians will help to build a stronger sense of community as well as concrete knowledge about the enormous diversity and extent of critical activity within the nation.
   Understanding what kinds of criticism are now going on in India may also diminish or obviate what often seems to be irrelevant, distracting or distorting criticism of and by Indian writers that is overly dependent on extravagantly privileged, elitist and/or Western ideas, theories and techniques of criticism.
   We can hope, too, that information about fellow critics may increase cooperation in varied critical endeavors, from private exchanges of views to the organizing of autonomous local meetings and undertakings.
   Another underlying result of the project may be to increase self-awareness, self-criticism, and self-confidence in Indian critics as individuals and in groups, with the further aim of empowering them for future critical writing and projects.