Occupation poet, writer Period 1957–present Name Keki Daruwalla | Nationality Indian Role Poet Ethnicity Parsi | |
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Education Panjab University, Chandigarh Books Love Across the Salt Dese, The Glass‑blower: Selected, Collected Poems - 1970‑2005, The keeper of the dead, Under Orion | ||
Keki n daruwalla poet short story writer english literature
Keki N. Daruwalla (born 1937) is a major Indian poet and short story writer in English language. He has not written any books. He is also a former Indian Police Service officer. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1984 for his poetry collection, The Keeper of the Dead, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2014.
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- Keki n daruwalla poet short story writer english literature
- Tehelka poetry with keki n daruwalla
- Early life and education
- Career
- Books
- In popular culture
- Online poetry
- References
Tehelka poetry with keki n daruwalla
Early life and education
Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla was born in Lahore in 1937. 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 1945 and moved to Junagarh and then to Rampur in India. As a result, he grew up studying in various schools and in various languages.
He obtained his master's degree in English Literature from Government College, Ludhiana, University of Punjab. He spent a year at oxford as a Queen Elizabeth House Fellow in 1980-81
Career
He joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1958, and eventually becoming a Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on International Affairs. He subsequently was in the Cabinet Secretariat until his retirement.
His first book of poetry was Under Orion, which was published by Writers Workshop, India in 1970. He then went on to publish his second collection Apparition in April in 1971 for which he was given the Uttar Pradesh State Award in 1972.His poems appeared in many prestigious poetry anthologies like Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry edited by Menka Shivdasani, The Dance of the Peacock.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1984 and returned the same award in October, 2015 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". Daruwalla did not take back his award even after Sahitya Akademi passed a resolution condemning the attacks on rational thinkers. 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." He received Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. Nissim Ezekiel comments "Daruwalla has the energy of the lion". He is president of The Poetry Society (India), and is based in Delhi.
Books
In popular culture
J. P. Dutta's Bollywood film Refugee is attributed to have been inspired by the story by Keki N. Daruwalla based around the Great Rann of Kutch titled "LOVE ACROSS THE SALT DESERT" which is also included as one of the short stories in the School Standard XII syllabus English textbook of NCERT in India.