Keki n daruwalla poems summary

Indian poet and short story writer (–)

Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla (24 January – 26 September ) was an Indian poet and short story writer in English.^[1][2] He was also an Indian Police Service officer.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in for his poetry collection, The Keeper of the Dead, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.^[3] He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in ^[4]

Early life and education

Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla was born in Lahore to a Parsi family on 24 January ^[5] His father, N.C.

Daruwalla, was an eminent professor, who taught in Government College Lahore. Before the Partition of India, his family left undivided India in and moved to Junagarh and then to Rampur in India. As a result, he grew up studying in various schools and in various languages.^[6][7]

He obtained his master's degree in English Literature from Government College, Ludhiana, University of Punjab spent a year at Oxford as a Queen Elizabeth House Fellow in –^[8]

He joined the Police Service in Working as a police officer offered him various opportunities to work in different parts of the country.

He witnessed the harsh realities of life from which he drew the substance for his literary pursuits.

Keki n daruwalla biography husband: Those honours, coupled with the technical confidence and imperious tonal flourish of his verse made him seem formidable. The Ghaghra retreats in a frenzied escape, leaving the land to mourn in her wake. Toggle the table of contents. These early poems pulsated with an energy that was both primal and reflective; they addressed the anxieties of nationhood, identity, and personal disillusionment.

He wrote twelve books, and his first novel, For Pepper & Christ, was published in He received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for his collection of poems Landscape in ^{[citation needed]}

Career

Daruwalla was appointed in the Uttar Pradesh cadre of the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 24 October after competitive examination.^[5] On his first central deputation, he worked as Area Organiser, Chamoli, in Joshimath in the erstwhile Special Service Bureau (now, Sashastra Seema Bal) till ^[9] On subsequent central deputation, he worked as Special Assistant on International Affairs to the Prime Minister, Charan Singh from 2 August ^[10] to 19 January ^[11] Subsequently, he resigned from the IPS to join the Research and Analysis Service (RAS),^[12] the internal cadre of R&AW.

Within R&AW he rose to the rank of Special Secretary.^[13] When his batchmate,^[14] Ajit Singh Syali, was promoted to Secretary, R&AW, Daruwalla was shifted as chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee, in the rank of Secretary, on 29 July ^[12] He retired as chairman, JIC in ^[15] Post-retirement, he was a member of National Commission for Minorities from 3 February to 2 February ^[16]

His first book of poetry was Under Orion, which was published by Writers Workshop, India in He then went on to publish his second collection Apparition in April in for which he was given the Uttar Pradesh State Award in His poems appeared in many poetry anthologies such as Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry^[17] edited by Menka Shivdasani, and The Dance of the Peacock^[18][19] edited by Vivekanand Jha.

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in and returned the same award in October in protest and with a statement that "The organisation Sahitya Akademi has failed to speak out against ideological collectives that have used physical violence against authors".^[20] Daruwalla did not take back his award even after Sahitya Akademi passed a resolution condemning the attacks on rational thinkers.^[21] In an interview to The Statesman, Daruwalla expanded on why he did not take back his award, saying "what you do, you do once and you can’t be seen as giving back an award and then taking it back."^[22] He received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in Nissim Ezekiel commented "Daruwalla has the energy of the lion".^[23]

Death

Daruwalla died from pneumonia on 26 September , at the age of ^[24][25]

Books

• In Morning Dew
• Under Orion.

  Writers Workshop, India.

• Apparition in April. Writers Workshop,
• Sword & abyss: a collection of short stories. Vikas Pub.,
• Winter poems.
  Keki n daruwalla biography death Thamizhachi Thangapandian. Retrieved 2 December In his final years, Daruwalla remained an active and engaged presence in the literary world, continuing to write and publish despite the physical challenges of aging. His India is not the idyllic, mythical land of romanticism but a place teeming with contradictions, where beauty and brutality coexist, often uneasily.

  Allied Publishers,

• The Keeper of the Dead. Oxford University Press,
• Crossing of rivers. Oxford University Press,
• Landscapes. Oxford University Press,
• A summer of tigers: poems. Indus, ISBN&#;
• The Minister for Permanent unrest & other stories. Orient Blackswan, ISBN&#;
• Night river: poems.

  Rupa & Co., ISBN&#;

• The Map-maker: Poems. Orient Blackswan, ISBN&#;
• The Scarecrow and the Ghost'
• Collected Poems (–). (Poetry in English). Penguin Books India., ISBN&#;
• For Pepper & Christ. New Delhi: Penguin, ISBN&#;
• Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama..

  New Delhi: Simon & Schuster India, ISBN&#;

In popular culture

J. P. Dutta's Bollywood film Refugee is attributed to have been inspired by the story of Keki N. Daruwalla based around the Great Rann of Kutch titled "Love Across the Salt Desert"^[26] which is also included as one of the short stories in the School Standard XII syllabus English textbook of NCERT in India.^[27]

Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies

Further reading

Online poetry

See also

References

External links