India, Sept. 4 -- It is rare for an Indian writer to have a whole exhibition dedicated to their life and work but the volume and quality that 85-year-old Adil Jussawalla has produced deserves no less. As a poet, playwright, essayist, and anthologist, his contribution to literature is immense, with his most recent book The Diamond-Encrusted Rat Trap: Writings from Bombay published in 2025. He has also mentored younger poets, co-founded a poets' publishing cooperative called Clearing House, and taught English literature at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai.

The task of presenting all this in a comprehensive and lively manner must have been exciting and daunting in equal measure for Deeptha Achar and Chithra KS, co-curators of the show Enlight...