Jerry Pinto's Search for Truth The poet and author's new book locates itself in Indiaâs post-colonial modernity and the crosscurrents of polarising narratives. Jerry Pinto. Photo: Sreejithkoiloth/CC BY-SA 4.0 Jerry Pintoâs new collection of poetry, I Want a Poem, is dedicated to âNissim, Adil, Arun and Euniceâ, with a parenthesis: âHang in there, Adil!â To the uninitiated: these are the poets of the Bombay school â Nissim Ezekiel, Adil Jussawalla, Arun Kolatkar and Eunice de Souza. The Bombay poets of the 1950s, â60s and â70s have been identified by literary scholars such as Anjali Nerlekar and Laetitia Zecchini as representatives of a sort of post-colonial modernism in India, similar to the Bombay Progressive Artistsâ Group, the Baroda group of artists, or the Indian Peopleâs Theatre Association. Kolatkar, along with Jussawalla, Gieve Patel and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, set up the legendary Clearing House publishing cooperative in 1976 to bring out their own books which mainstream publishers would not. In his poem ‘Our Generation’, Mehrotra remembers: