Keki N. Daruwalla to deliver Kavita Trust’s Lecture, Aug 6, Saturday

Keki N. Daruwalla to deliver Kavita Trust’s Lecture, Aug 6, Saturday

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Aug 05, 2016: Reports indicate that well known, English poet and writer Keki N. Daruwalla will deliver annual James and Shobha Mendonca Endowment Lecture on Poetry at the Gallerie Orchid, K S Rao Road here on August 6.

The lecture has been organised by Kavita Trust, which works for the promotion of Konkani poetry. The title of Daruwalla’s talk is ’Poetry: The Rights and Wrongs of a Quest’.

The last four years have seen Kavita Trust playing host to renowned poets like Gulzar, Ashok Vajpayee, Jerry Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam.

Poet Keki N. Daruwalla is a leading Indian writer with 12 poetry volumes, five short stories and two novels. His poems figure in reputed anthologies like ’Scanning the Century’. Penguin India published his ’Collected Poems’ (2006) and his poems have been translated into Swedish, Spanish, Magyar, Macedonian and Russian. Daruwalla is a serious short story writer with five volumes, with ’Islands’ being the most recent volume. His latest novel ’Ancestral Affairs’ was published by Harper Collins in 2015.