| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9789385665493 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789385665493 |
| No of pages | 416 |
| Book Publisher | Vishwakarma Publications |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 2016 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9789385665493 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789385665493 |
| No of pages | 416 |
| Book Publisher | Vishwakarma Publications |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 2016 |
R. Raj Rao (born 1955) is a writer and teacher of literature and one of India’s leading gay-rights activists. His 2003 novel The Boyfriend is one of the first gay novels to come from India.
He received his PhD in English literature from the University of Bombay, and did post-doctoral studies from the University of Warwick.
He is the author of Slide Show (poems), One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City (short stories) and Nissim Ezekiel:
The Authorized Biography. Poems from his ‘Bogey’ collection also served as the basis for Riyad Wadia's 1996 film Bombay, said to be India's first gay film.
Rao is a professor in the department of English, University of Pune, founder of Queer Studies Circle, a gay-lesbian student group, and in his own words, a radical utopian.
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Nissim Ezekiel is regarded as the father of modern Indian English poetry, and the founder of the Bombay school of poetry. In this meticulously researched biography, R. Raj Rao traces the development of Ezekiel's poetry and life against the background of the intellectual, cultural and political climate in India-from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century. The last section of the book deals with Ezekiel's increasing loneliness and his inability to recognize old friends, and finally being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1998.
Drawing on previously unpublished letters, poems and essays, as well as discussions with the poet and interviews with friends and peers, Rao examines the desires and realities of Ezekiel's life. Rao also provides detailed analyses of Ezekiel's poems. Scholarly, exhaustive and provocative, this is the definitive biography of one of India's foremost poets.