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Indian poet and concise 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 existence 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.

Literary Shelf. Blood and fog are over half the town and curfew stamps across the empty street. And every year the Ghaghra changes course turning over and over in her sleep. Daruwalla in the poem, The Ghaghra in Spate Ibid, p.

Before the Partition of India, his family left undivided India in and moved to Junagarh and then to Rampur in India. As a consequence, 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 Dwelling 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 region.

He witnessed the harsh realities of life from which he drew the substance for his literary pursuits. 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 primary 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 unite the Research and Analysis Service (RAS),^[12] the internal cadre of R&AW.

Within R&AW he rose to the rank of Particular 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 guide 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 Mention 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 utterance that "The organisation Sahitya Akademi has failed to speak out against ideological collectives that possess used physical violence against authors".^[20] Daruwalla did not take help 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 endorse 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 strength 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.
  Why the CEO of a marketing company argues that clear messaging helps small businesses grow adv. A new book shows how Nalanda Mahavihara contributed to the fields of ancient mathematics, astronomy. Keki N Daruwalla, a formidable figure in Indian English literature, is a poet and journalist whose work spans diverse genres and themes, always marked by his sharp wit, deep historical consciousness, and unyielding realism. A House of Words is a festschrift a collection of writings published in honour of a scholar that celebrates his prolific contributions and multifaceted personality.

  Vikas Pub.,

• Winter poems. 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

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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 concise stories in the School Usual XII syllabus English textbook of NCERT in India.^[27]

Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies

Further reading

Online poetry

See also

References

External links