Poet Adil Jussawalla’s vision of Bombay, though both
sinister and ominous, carries hope for a brighter future
Firdaus Gandavia
"Living in a port city, one is always aware of the sea, the boats and the ships and childhood impressions do survive a long time. I sometimes feel that I am done with poems of the sea and I have written them out of my system,” says Adil Jussawalla (pictured) on the publication of Shorelines, a new collection of poems. But that said, has he done with the sea poems forever? Rather unlikely. Some of the poems in this collection were published in 2015. They have an organic link with those he composed for his first collection Land’s End (1962),......