This volume commemorates 100 years of the publication of T S Eliot’s epoch-making The Waste Land. It analyses the poem’s myriad influences on Indian poetry, writers and academia. The collection features some of the foremost scholars of Indian modernisms and eminent Indian poets, and essays that demystify Eliot and his work for contemporary readers. The volume brings together both personal tributes and scholarly explorations of the poem.

The editor

K Satchidanandan, President, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, is a renowned bilingual poet and critic.

Introduction / K Satchidanandan

1. T S Eliot and The Waste Land as World Literature in Marathi / Sachin C. Ketkar
2. Fashioning a New Idiom: Aspects of Reception of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in Odisha / Jatindra Kumar Nayak and Animesh Mohapatra
3. The Afterlife of ‘Shantih . . .’ / Ipshita Chanda
4. England, America, India: Three Dimensions of The Waste Land / Harish Trivedi
5. The Waste Land and After: The Making of Modernist Poetry in Malayalam / E. V. Ramakrishnan
6. T. S. Eliot and Kannada Literary Modernity / Rajendra Chenni
7. Uncovering an Urban Self: Telugu Poetry Engages with The Waste Land / Afsar Mohammad