Adil Jussawalla

Adil Jehangir Jussawalla (born 8 April 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian poet, magazine editor and translator. He has written two books of poetry, Land's End and Missing Person.

Sea Breeze Bombay is a fine, city poem by this poet. It is actually a response to the historical incident of partition in the year 1947 according to the poet, Bombay is a 'Surrogate City'. It provided shelter to numerous refugees after partition, during which there were many riots in India. Thousands of people were killed and many became homeless. The city Bombay acted as a substitute or surrogate mother to all refugees.

In the poem 'Sea Breeze Bombay' the poet presents a picture of the suffering of the refugees. These people from the north got relief in the worst heat. In the city many communities were reformed. In the hot sun a cool breeze gives pleasant, soothing experience. In the same way, the city Bombay also provided pleasant experience to all the refugees.

Biography He was born to a Parsi family and completed his primary education at the Cathedral and John Connon School in 1956. He then attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1957–58. Later, he studied at University College, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1964.

He worked briefly as a substitute teacher for the Greater London Council, then became a language teacher at the EF International Language Centre; a post he held until 1969. Together with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Arun Kolatkar and Gieve Patel, he helped create "Clearing House", a poet's publishing co-operative.

In 2014, he was presented with the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book of poetry, Trying to Say Goodbye.

Selected works New Writing in India, Penguin Books Ltd, 1974, 978-0140036459 Trying to Say Goodbye, Almost Island Books, 2011 The Right Kind of Dog, Duckbill Books, 2013 Maps for a Mortal Moon: Essays and Entertainments (edited by Jerry Pinto), Aleph Books, 2014 I Dreamt a Horse Fell From the Sky, a collection of poetry and prose, Hachette, 2015 The Magic Hand of Chance, Paperwall Publishing, 2021, 978-8195378739

Anthologies Jussawalla's work appears in:

The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) ed. by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi The Golden Treasure of Writers Workshop Poetry (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (2022) ed. by Sudeep Sen published by Pippa Rann Books, London