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          "Anita Nair is a fine writer with a great sense of character...and an eye for telling details. She can move from tender compassion to sensuality to raging hatred...A compelling teller of stories."                                                                                                            -Hindu Literary Supplement           The list of Indian Writers in English is incomplete without the mention of Anita Nair. Nair is one of the best selling authors in India of poetry and fiction. Her books have received huge accolades from readers and critics. With a unique writing style of her own she has managed to keep up with the type of fiction her readers expect from her.           Anita Nair's novels and other writings have been immensely popular and widely accepted by her readers which marks her position as an established writer of the contemporary period. Anita Nair's first book is titled Satyr of the Subway , a collection of short stories. Her s

Eunice has been widely acclaimed as a poet, novelist and anthologist of nineteenth and twentieth century Indian Writing. She was also a critic, columnist and writer for children. Her first book of poetry 'Fix' was hailed as "...a practically perfect book, and one of the most brilliant first books I have encountered." Most of the poems seem at first to be caricatures of the Goan community, but are infact minutely observed revelation, occasionally indulgent but more often critical. There are also several wrenching poems about the poet's own fraught and unresolved relationships. Her mix of trenchant observation and confessional with more than a touch of self-deprecation and black humour became her distinctive style, reappearing in later collections, Women in Dutch Painting, Ways of Belonging, Selected and New Poems, and a Necklace of Skulls , unbashed even in her last volume Learn from the Almond Leaf. For Eunice, poetry was a process of consciously crafting and r

Adil Jussawalla is one of the most recognisabe voices in Indian Poetry in English- and as a formal journalist, editor and tarnslator, he has worn many hats. Through the independent small press Clearing House, Jussawalla helped publish some of the most landmark poetry collections in the country. After his second collections, he conspicously remained absent from the publishing scene for almost four decades. In the last five years, though, he has written and published the Sahitya Akademi winning 'I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky'. In his interview with Firstpost, he talks about his absence, the process to his poetry, moratlity and Bombay/Mumbai, which is subject of his latest poem lenghth poem- length book, Gulestan. He has written two books at poetry, Land's End and Missing Person , edited a seminal anthology of new writing from India and co-edited an anthology of Indian prose in English. He writes a complex poetry- ironic, fragmented, non-linear, formal strenuous- that