Keki N Daruwalla

Keki N. Daruwalla is one of India's leading poets and short story writers. He wrote his Master's in literature from Punjab and spent a year at Oxford as a Visiting Fellow under the Colombo Plan. He retired as Chairman JIC. A volume of his Collected Poems has been published in 2006. Daruwalla won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (for Asia) in 1987. He represented the country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2005. Daruwalla has been posted three times in the mountains Joshimath, Ranikhet and Kashmir. He calls himself a 'shamateur' trekker, having footed it to Rupkund, Chorhoti Pass, Pindari Glacier, and Amarnath. Ashok Dilwali magically brings snow-clad mountains and lovely valleys into our homes. He, undoubtedly, reigns supreme in mountain photography. He has mastered the art of capturing the exact mood at appropriate angles with his lens, and presents the Himalayas, its people and places in a form and style never seen before.