The poem “Song of Songs” from Mustansir Dalvi’s recent book of poems, Cosmopolitician, was a hot favourite with the audience at the Goa Arts and Literature Festival in December 2018. The recitation of ...
As cities went into lockdown last year, at least 10 million migrant workers left for home. While some were able to book train and bus rides, many others walked for hundreds of kilometers to reach ...
When talking about a poet, one has to say “Poet and…” poet and doctor, poet and editor/journalist and so forth. Very few can afford to be “just poets.” So with Mustansir Dalvi: Poet, translator, ...
From wandering Mumbai’s streets as a teenager to shaping its architectural discourse, Mustansir Dalvi bridges city, campus, and culture through design and poetry “In 1981, my father saw a small advert ...
Their chosen languages of writing seamlessly flow into each other’s, without losing meaning. Thus ensuring that poets Mustansir Dalvi and Hemant Divate can keep collaborating, this time with a new ...
In a world filled with intolerance, it sometimes feels there’s little that can be done except be a mute spectator. Poets are, perhaps, more fortunate because they can do something — write poems in ...
MUMBAI: “What defines Charles Correa best is that he was a Bombay architect,” said author Mustansir Dalvi on Monday evening, at the launch of his latest book, a biography of an architect whose work ...
The average Joe. Early in Mustansir Dalvi’s engaging biography of Charles Correa, the reader is introduced to Joe, the working township protagonist in You and Your Neighbourhood, an animated film the ...