Zulfikar Ghose

COLUMN: LANGUAGE AS A SUBSTANCE

The present age has seen the decline and fall of Modernism which, having slowly begun to spread across Europe in the late 19th Published 21 Aug, 2022 01:24pm

COLUMN: THE FORCE OF ORIGINALITY

When asked a question about their contemporaries, famous established poets dodge giving an answer, for it would ... Published 22 May, 2022 10:01am

COLUMN: INTERVIEWS WITH THE POETS

The technological revolution at the end of the 20th century eliminated the audience for interviews with poets... Updated 10 Apr, 2022 09:03am

COLUMN: WHO GETS PICKED?

Rereading the abandoned anthologies effects a curious revisionism in one’s literary appreciation... Published 13 Feb, 2022 09:36am

COLUMN: A SUMMER SET TALE

During the final decade of the Raj, when I lived with my Sialkoti family in Bombay [Mumbai], which attracted natives from... Published 26 Dec, 2021 07:01am

COLUMN: THE QUEST FOR FAME

Those of us who thought of ourselves as serious writers at the time dismissed the Booker as designed to promote popular writers... Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:03am

COLUMN: SOME IRISH POETS

While there’s little doubt that some of the finest English-language poetry, especially in the 20th century, has... Published 12 Sep, 2021 10:45am

COLUMN: WHAT’S IN A NAME

Among the several new writers to receive prominent notices lately, the names of some of those accorded high acclaim... Published 01 Aug, 2021 07:05am

COLUMN: THE SMALL PRESS SAVIOURS

What is to become of literature, one wonders, seeing everywhere one goes, whether taking a walk in a park or a seat... Published 13 Jun, 2021 07:05am

COLUMN: ALMINO'S MAJNUN AND LAILA

What first provoked my curious attention when I opened João Almino’s novel, Enigmas of Spring, was that its hero... Published 25 Apr, 2021 06:20am

COLUMN: AGHA SHAHID ALI'S HIMALAYAS

It is nearly 20 years since Agha Shahid Ali, the eminent Kashmiri poet, died aged 52. Rereading his books —... Published 07 Mar, 2021 06:55am

COLUMN: MUSLIMS SHAPING EUROPE

Those of us who grew up during the last years of the British Raj had little choice if we wanted a decent education... Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am

COLUMN: BALZAC'S SKIN OF GRIEF

He shows Raphael a strangely brilliant piece of shagreen; anyone who possesses the skin and makes a wish will have his wish... Updated 29 Nov, 2020 04:22pm

COLUMN: CLOSING BOOKSHOPS

That sort of rapport between a writer and a bookseller has long vanished as have many of the shops, including the one I knew... Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:01am

COLUMN: POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Sometimes, reading a chance remark that asserts a surprising claim persuades us to reread a text to see if we’d... Published 23 Aug, 2020 07:15am

COLUMN: THE SYCORAX SYNDROME

In an unpublished essay composed some 10 years ago, titled ‘The Sycorax Syndrome’, English poet Christopher Middleton Published 28 Jun, 2020 06:56am

COLUMN: VERGA AND ITALIAN MODERNISM

The eminence claimed for Lampedusa is based on referring to his novel as that by a Sicilian writing about Sicily. Updated 03 May, 2020 12:40pm

COLUMN: TWO POEMS

Two unpublished poems from the writer… Published 08 Mar, 2020 08:19am

COLUMN: BOMBAL AND HER VISION

Long before the much-celebrated Latin American boom that is associated with the 1967 publication of One Hundred ... Updated 30 Dec, 2019 02:30pm

COLUMN: THE MAKING OF DJUNA BARNES

Reading T.S. Eliot’s letters, one learns how an obscure work by an unknown writer is pushed to the attention of a... Updated 28 Oct, 2019 11:39am