Nissim Ezekiel, an Indian Jewish poet, actor and playwright was one of the foundational figures in post colonial India’s literary history. Most of us remember Ezekiel through his work ‘Night ...

The late poet Nissim Ezekiel, who passed away in 2004, is remembered today through the many ways he touched people’s lives. Some knew him as a mentor, some as a friend, most grew up reading his ...

A letter of introduction that poet Nissim Ezekiel wrote for me, some thirty years ago. The poet who moved gently in the fast pace of the big city of Mumbai; The poet whom I met during my travels ...

In this piece published in Freedom First in September 1980, noted Indian-Jewish poet Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004 ... the leader with followers and the guru with disciples. If it were otherwise ...

Doyen of Indo-Anglican poets Nissim Ezekiel died in Mumbai on Friday night. He was 79. Ezekiel, a former professor of English, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the past couple of years.

I was 18 when I first met Gieve Patel, at our guru Nissim Ezekiel’s fabled office on the ground floor of Theosophy Hall in South Bombay. We represented two different generations of Nissim’s ...

In my attempts as a new poet then, I wanted to write English poetry of international standards and I found a home in Nissim Ezekiel’s poetry. Reading him, I realised that tones of mischief ...

To commemorate his 97th birth anniversary, Nissim Ezekiel’s daughter, Kavita, collaborated with poet Mustansir Dalvi to release the Marathi translations of two of his poems as well a third ...

Nissim Ezekiel was an extraordinary teacher. His insights into authors and their works made his lectures a cut above the ordinary. He spoke with restraint and perspicacity, not with the flourish ...

The ordered mind. Erasure of the inner lie, And only love in every kiss. (From ‘Prayer 1’ by Nissim Ezekiel) The year 2024 is the birth ...