Zulfikar Ghose
When asked a question about their contemporaries, famous established poets dodge giving an answer, for it would ...
Published 22 May, 2022 10:01am
The technological revolution at the end of the 20th century eliminated the audience for interviews with poets...
Updated 10 Apr, 2022 09:03am
Rereading the abandoned anthologies effects a curious revisionism in one’s literary appreciation...
Published 13 Feb, 2022 09:36am
During the final decade of the Raj, when I lived with my Sialkoti family in Bombay [Mumbai], which attracted natives from...
Published 26 Dec, 2021 07:01am
Those of us who thought of ourselves as serious writers at the time dismissed the Booker as designed to promote popular writers...
Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:03am
While there’s little doubt that some of the finest English-language poetry, especially in the 20th century, has...
Published 12 Sep, 2021 10:45am
Among the several new writers to receive prominent notices lately, the names of some of those accorded high acclaim...
Published 01 Aug, 2021 07:05am
What is to become of literature, one wonders, seeing everywhere one goes, whether taking a walk in a park or a seat...
Published 13 Jun, 2021 07:05am
What first provoked my curious attention when I opened João Almino’s novel, Enigmas of Spring, was that its hero...
Published 25 Apr, 2021 06:20am
It is nearly 20 years since Agha Shahid Ali, the eminent Kashmiri poet, died aged 52. Rereading his books —...
Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:55am
Those of us who grew up during the last years of the British Raj had little choice if we wanted a decent education...
Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am
He shows Raphael a strangely brilliant piece of shagreen; anyone who possesses the skin and makes a wish will have his wish...
Updated 29 Nov, 2020 04:22pm
That sort of rapport between a writer and a bookseller has long vanished as have many of the shops, including the one I knew...
Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:01am
Sometimes, reading a chance remark that asserts a surprising claim persuades us to reread a text to see if we’d...
Published 23 Aug, 2020 07:15am
In an unpublished essay composed some 10 years ago, titled ‘The Sycorax Syndrome’, English poet Christopher Middleton
Published 28 Jun, 2020 06:56am
The eminence claimed for Lampedusa is based on referring to his novel as that by a Sicilian writing about Sicily.
Updated 03 May, 2020 12:40pm
Two unpublished poems from the writer…
Published 08 Mar, 2020 08:19am
Long before the much-celebrated Latin American boom that is associated with the 1967 publication of One Hundred ...
Updated 30 Dec, 2019 02:30pm
Reading T.S. Eliot’s letters, one learns how an obscure work by an unknown writer is pushed to the attention of a...
Updated 28 Oct, 2019 11:39am
The letters in the seventh volume of T.S. Eliot’s massive correspondence — written during 1934-35 when he was a...
Updated 26 Aug, 2019 09:55am