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Suniti Namjoshi

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“And then, of course,”
she was saying,
“we have grown so great
that now we dream
only of the possible.”

© 1980, Suniti Namjoshi
From: The Jackass and the Lady
Publisher: Writers Workshop, Calcutta

Suniti Namjoshi

Suniti Namjoshi

Born in Mumbai in 1941, Suniti Namjoshi is an important writer in contemporary Indian literature in English. She has several books of verse and fable to her credit. She worked in the Indian Administrative Service and in academic posts in India before moving to Montreal. She earned a PhD from McGill University (with a thesis on Ezra Pound), worked at the University of Toronto and later at the Ce...

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“And then, of course,”
she was saying,
“we have grown so great
that now we dream
only of the possible.”

From: The Jackass and the Lady

Altitudes

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