THE NISSIM EZEKIEL POETRY CRAWL

The Nissim Ezekiel Poetry Crawl is a two-hour long walk, which involves passing through iconic city & poetic landmarks, stopping to read Ezekiel’s poetry, and experiencing Bombay through the poet’s lens. This is the poet’s city: a messy, heterogenous, ugly, hilarious, and viscerally alive place that runs on its own rhythm. As we time travel back a hundred years, we live through the city in all of its shapes and forms - pre-independence, post-partition, post-liberalisation, and during communal conflicts. Nissim Ezekiel’s poetry begs for a conversation on immigrant lives in Bombay, multiculturalism, religious tolerance, stigmatism, and what it means to be “Indian”. His writings on the city’s social and economic state are reflected in important buildings like the university and stock exchange.