Rialroad Reveries
K N DAruwalla (1929-1993)
Introduction:
He was born in Lahore , now in Pakistan. HE attended the Government College in Ludhiana (in the Punjab) for his higher education. After obtaining a Master degree in English literature, he joined the police department from which he must have by now retired. He is believed to have settled down in New Delhi. The strangest and the most interesting fact of his life is that while serving his country as a policeman, he has been English writing poetry, in which he has made a name. Functioning as a police officer and writing poetry do not go well together. But we must take our hats off (as the phrase goes) to Daruwalla for his having accomplished his self-chosen task of writing poetry admirably. He has written poetry in the English language, and done so with conspicuous success.
I regard him as one of the major Anglo-Indian poets, even though the critics have been a little slow in giving him the praise which is due. I have no doubt that in the course of the next dozen years or so, he would be considered as one of the top-most Indo-Anglian poets. He is not only fertile in his ideas, but is also one of the masters of the English language.
The Volumes Published By Him
• Under Orion
• Appariton in April
• Crossing of Rivers
• Winter Poems
• The keeper Of The Dead
• Landscapes
He may not be a prolific poet but to have published six volumes of poems in the span of seventeen years is no mean achievement, but what needs particularly to be pointed out is the fact that, in recognition of his literary work, he was honoured with the Sahitya Academy Award in 1984. This fact, namely his winning this distinction, is a befitting reply to our grievance against the literary critics for not having shown much enthusiasm to his poetry.
Poem 1
“THE EPILEPTIC”
Summary And Analysis: A woman’s fit of Epilepsy in a Rickshaw:
This poem describes a fit of epilepsy which a woman suddenly got as she was going in a rickshaw with her children and her husband.
Introduction:
He was born in Lahore , now in Pakistan. HE attended the Government College in Ludhiana (in the Punjab) for his higher education. After obtaining a Master degree in English literature, he joined the police department from which he must have by now retired. He is believed to have settled down in New Delhi. The strangest and the most interesting fact of his life is that while serving his country as a policeman, he has been English writing poetry, in which he has made a name. Functioning as a police officer and writing poetry do not go well together. But we must take our hats off (as the phrase goes) to Daruwalla for his having accomplished his self-chosen task of writing poetry admirably. He has written poetry in the English language, and done so with conspicuous success.
I regard him as one of the major Anglo-Indian poets, even though the critics have been a little slow in giving him the praise which is due. I have no doubt that in the course of the next dozen years or so, he would be considered as one of the top-most Indo-Anglian poets. He is not only fertile in his ideas, but is also one of the masters of the English language.
The Volumes Published By Him
• Under Orion
• Appariton in April
• Crossing of Rivers
• Winter Poems
• The keeper Of The Dead
• Landscapes
He may not be a prolific poet but to have published six volumes of poems in the span of seventeen years is no mean achievement, but what needs particularly to be pointed out is the fact that, in recognition of his literary work, he was honoured with the Sahitya Academy Award in 1984. This fact, namely his winning this distinction, is a befitting reply to our grievance against the literary critics for not having shown much enthusiasm to his poetry.
Poem 1
“THE EPILEPTIC”
Summary And Analysis: A woman’s fit of Epilepsy in a Rickshaw:
This poem describes a fit of epilepsy which a woman suddenly got as she was going in a rickshaw with her children and her husband.