According to the poem, what was once most necessary for the emergence of a city?
(refer poem-geography lesson by Zulfikar Ghose)(class 8)
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POEM: Geography Lesson By Zulfikar Ghose
About the poet.
Born in Sialkot, India (now Pakistan), Zulfikar Ghose grew up as a Muslim. His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghose, was a businessman. In 1942, during the Second World War, the family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai). After the partition of British India into Pakistan and India, Ghose and his family emigrated to England. He graduated from Keele University in 1959, going on to teach at Ealing Mead School in London.
In 1964, Ghose married Helena de la Fontaine, an artist from Brazil (a country he later used as the setting for six of his novels). He moved from London to the United States in 1969 to teach at the University of Texas in Austin, where he has lived since.
In the 1970s, Ghose gained international repute with his trilogy The Incredible Brazilian, which American writer Thomas Berger called "a picaresque prose epic of Brazilian history." American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux called the work "a considerable feat of imagination."
Ghose has written both poetic and prosaic, fictional and non-fictional works. His books of poetry include The Violent West, A Memory of Asia and Selected Poems. He has written short stories, novels and five books of literary criticism.
Ghose's correspondence with Thomas Berger, spanning 40 years, is housed for research at the Harry Ransom Centerat the University of Texas at Austin. The letters cover topics such as their writing projects, books they were reading and personal concerns. Berger's dystopic 1973 novel Regiment of Women was dedicated to Ghose.