awarded with the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature. He lived in Hyderabad and was married to Madhu and they had two children. Works His published works include: As Poet : Articulate Silences, Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1970 Cobwebs in the Sun, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1974 Subterfuges, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1976 (includes the oft anthologised poem Indian Women) Woodpeckers, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1979 Trapfalls in the Sky, Macmillan, Madras, 1986 (Sahitya Akademi Award for English, 1987; translated into Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.) Woolgathering, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1995 Thus Spake the Buddha, UBSPD, New Delhi, 2001 Losing My Way, Peacock Books, New Delhi, 2008 Voice of Buddha: A Poetic Transcreation of The Dhammapada, Atlantic, New Delhi, 2008 Intezar (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), Educational Publishing House, New Delhi, 2009 Tum Kaho Main Sunoon (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), Educational Publishing House, New Delhi, 2010 Which of My Selves Do You Wish to Speak to? Selected Poems, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2011 Mujasma-e-Husn (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), (MS) Where Have the Dead Gone?, (MS) His individual poems have appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Review (London), Ariel, Southern Review, Hemisphere Meanjin, Western Humanities Review, Trafika (Prague), etc. As Playwright: The Last Wedding Anniversary, Macmillan, 1975. Produced by the Indian National Theatre, and also translated into Urdu as Shaadi Ki Akhri Saal Girah, Shero Hikmat, Hyderabad, 1977. As Novelist: The Bone's Prayer, Arnold Heinemann, 1979. Also translated into Hindi as Atmahatya, Rajpal & Sons, New Delhi, 1980. Nude Before God, Vanguard Press, New York, 1983—and Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1987 A River with Three Banks, UBSPD, New Delhi, 1998—Translated into Hindi as Teen Kinaron Vali Nadi, Saransh, New Delhi, 1999 Infatuation, UBSPD, New Delhi, 2000. Two Mirrors at the Ashram, Penguin, New Delhi, 2007 Rough Passage to the Bodhi Tree (The Buddha: From Renunciation to Enlightenment), (MS) As Short Story Writer: Beyond Love & Other Stories, Vikas, New Delhi, 1980 To Nun with Love & Other Stories, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2001 Face Behind the Mirror & Other Stories, (MS) As Translator: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Urdu to English) As Critic: Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel, New York University Press, New York, 1963 Critical Approaches to Fiction (edited in collaboration with Keith F. McKean), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969—and several other works of literary criticism. His research papers have appeared