Interview:
Keki N Daruwalla and This Craft of Verse
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Pub. Date
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Mar, 2015
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The IUP Journal of English Studies
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Article
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IJES91503
Author Name
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Amitendu Bhattacharya
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English Studies
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Abstract
One of India’s finer and better known poets, Keki N Daruwalla’s first book of poetry Under Orion was published by the Writers Workshop, Calcutta, in 1970. Since then he has brought out twelve volumes of poetry. He has also published several short stories and his debut novel For Pepper and Christ appeared in 2009. He is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. Daruwalla was born in 1937 and earned his Master’s degree in English Literature from Government College, Ludhiana, Punjab University. In 1958, he joined the Indian Police Service and is presently serving as Member of the National Commission for Minorities. He lives in Delhi. This interview was video-recorded at the Educational Multimedia Research Center of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, when Keki Daruwalla visited the campus as an invited speaker for the 3-day International Conference “Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies” organized by the University’s Department of English Literature from November 19 to 21, 2012.
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Amitendu Bhattacharya: Since you haven’t written an autobiography yet, I think it can
be legitimately asked: where were you born and raised and what were your days of
childhood like?
Keki N Daruwalla: I was born in Lahore. Then we moved to Lyallpur. My father was
a professor. During the World War I he was in England—in both Oxford and Cambridge.
After eight years in Lyallpur, we moved to Junagadh where he became tutor and guardian
to the prince. So from 1945 to 1948, we were in Junagadh. Then we came to Rampur. So
I have traveled around and as a result [of this] my school education was a shambles.
Because you change from medium to medium, language to language, school to school, it
has an effect. But since my father was a professor my weak points were slowly breached
in, the breaches in the wall were brought to a close.
Keywords
English Studies Journal, Keki N Daruwalla, Amitendu Bhattacharya, Interview, Craft of Verse, Writers Workshop, Revisiting the Contours of English Studies, Unveiling a Secret Agreement.
