Body of Evidence – Adil Jussawalla

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This selection of articles, reviews, and essays, written by Adil Jussawalla over a period of 36 years, deal with body, mind, and — there’s no way of avoiding the word — soul, in environments that both nurture life and destroy it. His spontaneous responses — which Vidyan Ravintharan writes about in a chapter on the author in his book Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose (2022) — occasionally tempered with moody bouts of introspection, mark this selection too. We hope you enjoy it. Adil Jussawalla was born in Bombay in 1940. He is the author of six books of poems and two chapbooks. He was honoured with a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 and was Tata Literature Lives’s Poet Laureate for 2021. Selections of his prose have appeared in three previous books. He lives in Mumbai.