Indian Poet for High Post in British Poetry

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra author of An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English and professor of English at the Allahabad University; was nominated by novelist Amit Chaudhuri and Oxford lecturer of English Peter D McDonald. He is been described as a “Finest Poet in Any Language”. Mehrotra is one of three candidates in the fray for the most high profile post in British poetry.

He never considered English as a non-Indian language; it could be colonial but that doesn’t make less Indian.