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Keki N. Daruwalla Indian Poet

Keki Naserwanji Daruwala was born on 24 January 1937 in a Parsi family in Lahore. His father, NC Daruwala, was a distinguished professor who taught at the Government College Lahore. Before the partition of India, his family left undivided India in 1945 and moved to Junagadh and then to Rampur, India. As a result, they grew up studying in different schools and in different languages.

Keki Naserwanji Daruwala was an Indian poet and short story writer in English. He was also a former Indian Police Service officer.

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India’s national literary academy, the Sahitya Akademi, in 1984 for his poetry collection, The Keeper of the Dead. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2014.

Daruwala died of pneumonia on 26 September 2024, at the age of 87.