Nissim Ezekiel turned seventy in 1994. This volume of critical essays on Indian literature commemorates this important landmark in the life of one of India’s most significant contemporary poets writing in English today. It was felt that this would be the most appropriate way of marking Ezekiel’s seventieth birthday. As an educator, editor, friend and guide, his has been a major influence on Indian literature in English—from the 1950s till the present date. ...