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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.
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Jerry Pintoâs new collection of poetry,Â
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 coop
Review: Ranjit Hoskote s Hunchprose Is Up There With the Best
Hoskote is one of the most respected art critics around and this book is also testimony to his wide reading of arcane subjects.
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When reviewing something outstanding, it is best to be upfront. Ranjit Hoskote’s
Hunchprose is fit to be put alongside the best of Dom Moraes. The poetry and its subterranean voice, ambivalent in the sense they speak in different tones, snare the reader. The very first poem, ‘Man with Parrots’, situates the man in this age:
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The writer is an author.
AFTER spotting a reference to the poet Dom Moraes in my article on Ved Mehta, a thoughtful reader wrote to tell me that he owned a copy of Dom’s first book The Grass is Greener (1951). It was published when he was only 13 years old. Its subject was not poetry, for which he later became world famous, but cricket.
Its frayed dust jacket describes him as possessing “an amazing precocity”. Curiously, Dom never mentions it in any of his autobiographies, except in a casual aside in Never At Home (1996).
At the age of 12, Dom received his first prize as the best commentator in a cricket match between the Commonwealth XI and India XI in 1950-51. At the age of 18, while still at Oxford, he won the more coveted Hawthornden Prize for his slim anthology of poems A Beginning (1961).