ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF JUSSAWALLA’S MIND
Adil Jussawalla’s poems are rooms, “their outer walls gone”. One wanders in and the door shuts. The trapped reader panics for a moment before surrendering to the expanse of freedom contained within the boundaries of his taut lines. Jussawalla invites the reader to scale the walls—counterintuitive as it might sound—of each poem, and discover for herself what lies beyond.
Recently anointed the poet laureate of Tata Literature Live! 2021, the author, now 81, has served as the
