Discuss how Patil prove himself to be a true patriot ?
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Gifted poet nurturing English-language verse in India
The gifted poet Nissim Ezekiel, who died at 79, was the father of the post independence Indian poetry. A prolific dramatist, critic, broadcaster and social commentator, he was professor of English and reader of American literature at Mumbai (formerly Bombay) University in the 1990s, and secretary of the Indian division of the foreign authors’ organisation PEN. Ezekiel belongs to the tiny Marathi-speaking Bene Israel Jewish community of Mumbai, which never encountered anti-Semitism. He was a volunteer at the American-Jewish charity in Bombay.
His botany professor father and school principal mother raised Ezekiel in a secular setting. Even as a schoolboy, he favoured TS Eliot, WB Yeats, Ezra Pound and Rainer Maria Rilke to the floridity of Indian English verses, and when he started his literary career at the end of the 1940s, his introduction of formal English was controversial due to his affiliation with colonialism. Yet he “naturalised the language to the Indian condition and breathed life into the Indian English poetic heritage,” wrote the Bangladeshi academic Kaiser Haq.
Ezekiel ‘s poetry described love, isolation, desire, imagination and political pomp, human foibles, and the “kindred clamour” of urban dissonance. He mirrored the post-war revolution of England (Philip Larkin, DJ Enright and Ted Hughes) but honed a distinct, satirical voice, switching from a rigid metre to a free verse.