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Saturday, November 21, 2015

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An informal chat with eminent poet and writer Keki N Daruwalla on growing intolrence in India. 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". He received Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. Nissim Ezekiel comments "Daruwall has the energy of the lion". He is president of The Poetry Society (India), and is based in Delhi. He is also a former Indian Police Service officer, who retired as Additional Director in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
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