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INAMDAR, F.A. "K.N. Daruwalla's Poems: Individual Response" in RAM, ATMA. ed.
Contemporary Indian-English Poetry Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1989: 86-92.
KING, BRUCE. “Daruwalla’s Oxford Revisions” Littcrit 19, 10.2 (1984): 37-56.
In contrast to earlier printings, the Oxford editions left-justify margins, italicise and footnote
Indian terms and regulate usage of capitals and punctuation. Close reading of texts noting a
general tightening of diction, less ambiguity, fewer excess similes, more regular linebreaks and
a general shift to “vigorous realistic speech” , all as evidence of Daruwalla’s continuing
attention to poetic craft.
KING, BRUCE. "Keki Daruwalla: Outsider, Skeptic and Poet" The Indian Literary Review
4.2 (1986):47-59.
MOKASHI-PUNEKAR, SHANKAR. “????” [Daruwalla]Journal of Indian Writing in
English 4.1 (1976): 24-?.
Daruwalla as a police officer engages with real life and is naturally Indian in his “aliveness to
the environment”. Finds his debunking irony more amusing than Ezekiel’s play with Indian
English. Under Orion is more controlled than Apparitions in April. Contrasts to Santhi’s
verse and compares with Rajendranath Seal.
MUKHERJEE, PRASENJIT. "Relating the Subjective: An Approach to the Recent Poetry of
Keki N. Daruwalla" Chandrabhaga 4 (1980):51-8.
NABAR, VRINDA. "Keki N. Daruwalla: Poetry and a National Culture" in SHAHANE,
VASANT A. and SIVARAMKRISHNA, M. eds Indian Poetry in English: A Critical
Assessment Madras: Macmillan, 1980: 28-40. Also Atlantic Highlands: Humanities, 1981.
NAIK, M.K. “‘Drama Talk’: The Poetry of K. N. Daruwalla” in Naik Studies in Indian
English Literature New Delhi: Sterling, 1987: 93-104.
NAIK, M.K. "Landscapes and Inscapes" Kavya Bharati 1 (1988): 65-71.
PRASAD, MADHUSUDAN. "Keki N. Daruwalla: Poet as Critic of His Age" Literary Half-
Yearly 28.1 (January 1987):17-38.
SREERMACHER, M. "The River's Argot in Three Indo-English Poets: A.K. Ramanujan,
K.N. Daruwalla and Nissim Ezekiel" Poetry 10 (1986):11-13.
SREERMACHER, M. "The River's Argot in Three Indo-English Poets: A.K. Ramanujan,
K.N. Daruwalla and Nissim Ezekiel" Poetry 10 (1986):11-13.
VENKATACHARI, K."The Idiom of Autochthon: A Note on the Poetry of Keki N.
Daruwalla" in KHER, INDER NATH and CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN eds. Ariel 14.4
(1983): 72-76. Reprinted in Madhusudan Prasad (ed) Living Indian English Poets New
Delhi: Sterling, 1989: 66-72.
Without recourse to religion, Daruwalla’s work patterns an “apprehension of man in
relation to nature and his identity” as the fulfilment of historical development, and requires
exploration of “the singular power of the place” (autocthon) which generates a distinctive life.
Hence his ‘documentary’ cataloguing of India’s stark realities, the “dialectic of decadence and