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Keki N. Daruwalla
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
[edit]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 Lit
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Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla as a Poet
Literary Shelf
“God, save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?” − With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross.
− dge in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
(Edited By Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, , p)
Under an overhang of crags
fierce bird-love:
the monals mated, clawed and screamed;
the female brown and nondescript
the male was king, a fire-dream!
My barrel spoke one word of lead:
the bird came down, the king was dead,
− Keki N. Daruwalla in Death of A Bird
(Crossing of Rivers and The Keeper of the Dead, Oxford Univ. Press, Delhi, , p)
Keki lla, who was born on the 24th of January, at Lahore, in the then time British India, is without any doubt one of those writers of Indian English poetry who have re
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Keki N. Daruwalla (): The poet who mapped geographies of history, memory
Born in Lahore in , Daruwalla witnessed India’s Partition as a lived rupture. His family, part of the Zoroastrian community, migrated to India, and this displacement found expression in many different ways in his work across genres. After earning a master’s grad in English Literature from Punjab University, Daruwalla joined the Indian Police Service in , a path that gave him firsthand insight into the mechanics of governance and its failures, and deeply informed his body of work.
His experiences in lag enforcement (he retired as chairman, joint intelligence committee, in ), particularly in witnessing the underbelly of civil unrest, human cruelty, and systemic violence, seeped into his poetry, providing an authenticity that sets his work apart. His early exposure to the works of Western poets such as T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats influenced his aesthetic sensibility, but his heart and his lines beat firmly to t