Keki N. Daruwalla

About The Author

Keki N. Daruwalla is a highly-regarded Indian poet, short story writer and novelist in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 for his poetry collection, The Keeper of the Dead; the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987; and the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2014. He lives in New Delhi.

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Books by Keki N. Daruwalla

Swerving to Solitude

Letters to Mama

By Keki N. Daruwalla

We belong to old Lucknow—we don’t meet people, we offer salaams; our tawaifs were more cultured than the middle class housewives you find today, hunting on tired legs for a bargain deal … Seema, married to a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, voices her dissent during the Eme...

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