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In the News (Mon 30 Nov 09)

  
  Language in India
For the last few years, Nissim Ezekiel was suffering from the Alzheimer's disease (See Thirumalai, Language in India, January 2002).
A doyen of Indian English literature, Nissim Ezekiel will be always remembered, among so many other achievements and writings, for the clever use of Indian English as a means to explore the Indian mind and sensibility.
And Ezekiel, a prophet of the Old Testament, or in the Jewish nuance, the Hebrew Prophetic writing, called his people to obey God or face the impending disaster.
www.languageinindia.com /feb2004/nissim.html   (1065 words)

  
  Nissim Ezekiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nissim Ezekiel (December 24, 1924 - January 9, 2004) was a poet, playwright and art critic.
Ezekiel received the Sahitya Akademi cultural award in 1983 and the Padma Shri in 1988.
Ezekiel, being a member of the Indian Jewish community, approached poetry as an outsider and was different from the nationalistic Indian literature of that time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nissim_Ezekiel   (614 words)

  
 Guardian | Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel, who has died aged 79, was the father of post-independence Indian verse in English.
Ezekiel was raised in a secular milieu by his botany professor father and school principal mother.
Ezekiel once described India as too large for anyone to be at home in all of it.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4875573-103684,00.html   (749 words)

  
 [minstrels] The Patriot -- Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel, a Jew who lives in Bombay, is possibly India's greatest living poet [1].
Nissim Ezekiel stands apart from other contemporaries due to his persistent use of irony in all poems.
Ezekiel's attitude is not that of an anglophile feeling scorn for the seemingly 'inferior' Indians, but the frustration of an Indian wanting to break out of the hypocritical attitudes in society.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/516.html   (2038 words)

  
 The Hindu : 'A human balance humanly acquired'
Ezekiel's 20 years as a formal academician were only one phase in an astonishingly varied, even experimental life.
Ezekiel's ruminative, sometimes almost sententious tenor, his dry wit and self-deflating irony have attracted much notice; few readers counterbalance these with the magnificently lyrical moments when the poet achieves a searing insight into human frailty, when his mastery over formal metre yields before a music of surprise.
Ezekiel, ever the votary of the golden mean, elected to remain in Bombay, addressing both the cosmopolitan and the local in this volatile crucible.
www.hindu.com /mag/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800350200.htm   (1465 words)

  
 Nissim Ezekiel: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezekiel was born in Bombay (now Mumbai (Mumbai: A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India)).
In 1947, Ezekiel did his Masters in literature from Wilson College, University of Mumbai (University of Mumbai: the university of mumbai is one of the outstanding universities of india....
Ezekiel, being a member of the Indian Jewish (Jewish: the word jew (hebrew:) is used in a wide number...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nissim_ezekiel   (848 words)

  
 14 attempts at a tribute
The poet Ezekiel appeared not to notice any unpleasantness; he smiled uncertainly, he was a small island of serenity.
The poet Ezekiel was born in 1924 in Bombay.
Ezekiel was a role model for many writers: not only did he write knowledgeably about art, literature, and theater, he had held jobs in journalism and advertising.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/jan/12spec.htm   (1160 words)

  
 New Statesman - Arts - Commentary - Remembering the Indian poet Nissim Ezekial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
To fully appreciate the achievements of Nissim Ezekiel, the Indian poet who died last month aged 80 in Bombay, we should not remember the honours and awards he received in the 1980s, but the lonely environment in which he started writing in the early 1950s.
Nissim Ezekiel gave English poetry space in the crowded Indian literary landscape.
Ezekiel was never at home in crowds; he preferred to eat alone in Irani and south Indian restaurants, in a fast-vanishing Bombay that has now even forgotten its name.
www.newstatesman.com /arts/200402090046   (825 words)

  
 Poet Nissim Ezekiel passes away- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezekiel, educated in Mumbai and London, was a reader in American Literature at the University of Bombay and has been a visiting professor to Leeds University in Britain.
Ezekiel was a journalist in the mainstream media as well in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ezekiel was active in the Theosophy society and was attached to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Office.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/415648.cms   (251 words)

  
 Ezekiel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The book is a collection of oracles emanating from the career of the priest Ezekiel, who preached to Jews of the Babylonian captivity from 593 BC to 563 BC (according to the chronology given in the book itself in chapters 1 and 2).
These chapters include Ezekiel's symbolic actions, his indictment of Judah and Israel, the abomination in the Jerusalem Temple, and the vision of the chariot-throne, which is significant for later Jewish mysticism.
Lotte Glover looks at photos of her father, Rabbi Ezekiel Landau, who was the official rabbi of "Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society" for 25 years.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Ezekiel.asp   (975 words)

  
 The lone prophet - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And the poet, Nissim Ezekiel, stands out as the prophet of the city-man. He describes Cain, the first Biblical villain who killed his kid brother and countered God’s accusing query -’’Where is your brother, Abel?” by the more famous “Am I my brother’s keeper?” And God curses him.
Ezekiel goes deep into the alienated modern human condition, and of course falls back on his own religious and moral moorings in defining his poetry.
Ezekiel is one of the first proponents of the concept of alienation in Indian English poetry.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan252004/artic6.asp   (1119 words)

  
 [Reader-list] Nissim Ezekiel passes away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nissim Ezekiel, India’s most famous Anglo-English poet, who passed away on Friday evening, was laid to rest at Jewish Cemetery, Worli on Sunday.
For Nissim Ezekiel, born in Bombay on December 16, 1924, to Bene-Israel Jewish parents, poetry was not just a hobby or pastime.
For Nissim, as for any mature poet, form and content, image and statement, were two sides of the same coin.
mail.sarai.net /pipermail/reader-list/2004-January/003336.html   (1172 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 237   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Nissim I knew, when I was 16, and he was 55, was a very different man. He was India's best-known Indian English poet, and the first to try and break the mould.
I visited Nissim a few days later, and he could still recognize me. Sharing the room with a few other patients, he was sitting up in his bed with nothing more than a tumbler of water by his side and a small plastic bag on the bed.
Nissim had not been allowed to attend the function, and did not recognize us, but was thrilled to see a cake that we had brought him, refusing to share it with anyone else.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/01/24/d401242102108.htm   (2140 words)

  
 Photo album: Nissim Ezekiel, Poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nissim Ezekiel was born of Jewish parents at a home that lay amidst a series of lanes and chawls close to Byculla Bridge.
Young Nissim of “a thousand failures” went on to become the editor of PEN journal and on the editorial boards of the Bombay English Association Magazine, Poetry India and Quest.
Nissim was Bombay’s very own poet terming his attachment to the city as “a series of commitments”.
web.mid-day.com /smd/play/2004/february/75890.htm   (309 words)

  
 Nissim Ezekiel -- The Good Native
The temptation to view Nissim Ezekiel's poetry as some sort of a cross between an unwillingness to let go of the Raj legacy and a quaint exotic supposedly native use of the language is hardly surprising.
Nissim Ezekiel as a literary presence cannot be denied.
Interestingly, Ezekiel's views on love, religion and poetry are all connected with his ideas on the state of man, his striving to be a "finished man" ("First Theme and Variations").
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /post/india/ezekiel/kumari1.html   (2360 words)

  
 Poet Nissim Ezekiel dies aged 79
Ezekiel's first collection 'Time to Change' was published in 1952.
Ezekiel had received several awards and was presented with the Sahitya Akademi award in 1983 and Padmashri in 1988.
The late Professor Nissim Ezekiel inspired and enlightened many of us through his very well composed poems over the years.
in.rediff.com /news/2004/jan/09poet.htm   (187 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
Ezekiel, a former professor of English, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for the past couple of years.
Born in a Jewish family, he was educated in Mumbai and had translated many works into Marathi.
Ezekiel received several awards and was conferred the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 and the Padmashri in 1988.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040111/asp/nation/story_2774530.asp   (92 words)

  
 Nissim Ezekiel - TheBestLinks.com - December 24, English language, India, January 9, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nissim Ezekiel - TheBestLinks.com - December 24, English language, India, January 9,...
Nissim Ezekiel, December 24, English language, India, January 9, London, Mumbai...
Ezekiel, being a member of the Jewish community, approached poetry as an outsider and was different from the nationalistic Indian literature of that time.
www.thebestlinks.com /Nissim_Ezekiel.html   (622 words)

  
 - Books and Authors - Re: Nissim Ezekiel: The Jewish Poet of India
I am from England and would just like to post here the obituary of Nissim Ezekiel, one of the leading Indian poets, who was a Bene Israel Jew from Bombay.
I wrote this poem to pay homage to the memory of Nissim Ezekiel who still has the fair share in the glory of Modern Indian poetry in English.
Ezekiel, you’re a ‘reluctant creature of a solitude’
www.jbooks.com /discussions/read.php?f=34&i=79&t=57   (2373 words)

  
 Nissim Ezekiel: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezekiel was born in Bombay (now Mumbai (A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India)
Ezekiel’s father was a botany professor and his mother, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Ezekiel received the Sahitya Akademi (The sahitya akademi is an indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages...)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/nissim_ezekiel   (1779 words)

  
 Master of many arts, Nissim, passes away- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ezekiel, who was a bornand-bred-in-Bombay Jew, studied at Wilson College and Birbeck College, London.
His first book of poems, A Time to Change, was published in 1952 and Ezekiel subsequently went on to become an eminence grise on the Mumbai poetry scene and father figure to generations of poets after him.
Fascinated by the sweep of the city, its blend of cultures and its streetspeak, some of his poems, as he once said,were inspired by phrases picked up in the city's colleges and local trains.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/415066.cms   (308 words)

  
 [minstrels] The Hill -- Nissim Ezekiel
I hadn't come across the poem before - my knowledge of Ezekiel was, sadly, confined to two of his almost trademark renditions of Indian English, and the ubiquitous "Night of the Scorpion", all from that marvellous anthology "Panorama".
Today's poem is very different in tone - at once exhortatory and philosophical, so that while it is not the stirring call to action that, say, Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" [Poem #38], it is nonetheless a thought-provoking poem.
A photograph of Nissim Ezekiel is at: http://www.meadev.nic.in/earthquake/culture/literature/gallery/gal18.htm
cs-tr.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1426.html   (424 words)

  
 Essay or Coursework : Poetry Analysis of 'Night of the Scorpion' by Nissim Ezekiel, and 'Sacrifice' by TaufiqRafat.
Poetry Analysis of 'Night of the Scorpion' by Nissim Ezekiel, and 'Sacrifice' by TaufiqRafat.
"Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel is a poem about a child witnessing an event in his life.
This was quite horrific, as vivid details of his mother being stung by a scorpion are portrayed in the poem.
www.coursework.info /i/68106.html   (344 words)

  
 Torn and frayed in Manila: Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004)
Torn and frayed in Manila: Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004)
I first came across the Indian Jewish poet Nissim Ezekiel when I commissioned a book called the Traveller's Literary Companion to the Indian Subcontinent.
Ezekiel died last week, although as one of his obituarists noted, " The onset of Alzheimer’s meant that we, Mumbai, its poets, his friends and I lost him by degrees." The same obituary included some short poems, including the following:
tornandfrayed.typepad.com /tornandfrayed/2004/01/nissim_ezekiel_.html   (285 words)

  
 Events: Tribute; RAMAKRISHNA HEGDE (1926-2004); Jan 25, 2004 The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nissim's facial expressions, whenever I went to see him, indicated that he didn't think I was a poet.
It was a clever ploy, for even though a compere commands a certain prestige, he usually doesn't read his poems.
No sooner did I write a postcard to him saying I wished to do it, than he was ready, with all the time in the world.
www.the-week.com /24jan25/events11.htm   (1239 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 244   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thus was our tribute to Nissim Ezekiel--one of the founding fathers, if not the, of modern Indian English poetry--on January 24th, which perforce was published without any of his poems since we ran out of space.
Ezekiel's poems in Indian English show him venturing successfully into modes no longer preoccupied with the self, in which he can empathise better with the unsympathetic aspects of his linguistic and cultural milieu.
To have opened this small account with rag-bag syndicate of the ostensibly sub-standard forms of linguistic practice, allowing poetry to explore parts of the human structure it had not earlier known it could accommodate or inhabit, is no small part of Ezekiel's contribution to post-Independence investment in poetry.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/01/31/d401312101106.htm   (508 words)

  
 The Hindu : Nissim Ezekiel passes away
The doyen of Indo-Anglian poets Nissim Ezekiel died here yesterday.
Ezekiel, a former professor of English, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Born in a Jewish family, he was educated in Mumbai and had translated works into Marathi.
www.hindu.com /2004/01/11/stories/2004011100111100.htm   (113 words)

  
 RSLB
Currently an independent consultant, Nissim Ezekiel has over 27 years of experience in business and public affairs.
Nissim Ezekiel has held a variety of senior positions, including that of former director of corporate planning and financial policy at the International Finance Corporation (IFC-World Bank Group) and member of the corporation's senior management team.
Ezekiel provides consulting services to large corporations and countries on matters related to international and bilateral financial institutions.
www.rslbpartners.com /management.html   (1377 words)

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