DOM MORAES (1938-2004), poet, novelist and columnist, is seen as a foundational figure in Indian English Literature. In 1958, at the age of twenty, he won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first volume of verse, A Beginning, going on to publish more than thirty books of prose and poetry.
<div class="woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper" id="wc-tabs-wrapper" style="margin-bottom: 5rem; caret-color: rgb(72, 79, 86); font-family: Poppins;"><div class="woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab" id="tab-description" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-title-description" style="counter-reset: footnotes 0;"><div class="rey-prodDescToggle u-toggle-text-next-btn " style="position: relative; margin-bottom: var(--margin-bottom); max-height: var(--height); overflow: hidden; mask-image: linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0));"><h6 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro";">Dom Moraes was not only one of the finest poets of the twentieth century, he was also an extraordinary journalist and essayist. He could capture effortlessly the essence of the people he met, and in every single profile in this sparkling collection he shows how it is done. The Dalai Lama laughs with him and Mother Teresa teaches him a lesson in empathy. Moraes could make himself at home with Laloo Prasad Yadav, the man who invented the self-fulfilling controversy, and he could exchange writerly notes with the novelist and intellectual Sunil Gangopadhyaya. He was Indira Gandhi’s biographer— painting her in defeat, post Emergency, and in triumph, when she returned to power. He tried to fathom the mind of a mysterious ‘super cop’—K.P.S. Gill—and also of Naxalites, dacoits and ganglords.</span></h6></div></div></div><div class="__placeholder-wrapper related products" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; animation: placeholdersPulsateOpacity 1.3s var(--easeoutcubic,ease-out) infinite; margin-bottom: 60px; caret-color: rgb(72, 79, 86); color: rgb(72, 79, 86); font-family: Poppins;"></div>
