3 Review(s)

Rohinton Daruwala�s poems unfold like a baramasa, an almanac of seasons and sensations, exquisite torments and explosions of delight. He essays a sensuous portraiture of place, invoking torrential monsoons, arid summers, railway bridges at night, libraries in deserts. He spells out a frank eroticism in the textures and flavours of fruit... At the same time, [he] is entangled in the hyper-modern present. He gathers traces of the loved one from residues both material and digital. [He] maps the city, not only through the portraiture of human protagonists, but also through the micro - ecologies inhabited by butterflies and sparrows. In Daruwala�s handling, the poem can be an oblique parable, a brief lamp of wisdom in the wind of distraction - Light as breath, yet as essential � Ranjit Hoskote