published by Writers Workshop, India in 1970. He then went on to publish his second collection Apparition in April in 1971 for which he was given the Uttar Pradesh State Award in 1972. His poems appeared in many poetry anthologies such as Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry edited by Menka Shivdasani, and The Dance of the Peacock edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1984 and returned the same award in October, 2015 in protest and with a statement that "The organisation Sahitya Akademi has failed to speak out against ideological collectives that have used physical violence against authors". Daruwalla did not take back his award even after Sahitya Akademi passed a resolution condemning the attacks on rational thinkers. In an interview to The Statesman, Daruwalla expanded on why he did not take back his award, saying "what you do, you do once and you can’t be seen as giving back an award and then taking it back." He received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. Nissim Ezekiel commented "Daruwalla has the energy of the lion". Books In Morning Dew Under Orion. Writers Workshop, India. 1970 Apparition in April. Writers Workshop, 1971. Sword & abyss: a collection of short stories. Vikas Pub., 1979. Winter poems. Allied Publishers, 1980. The Keeper of the Dead. Oxford University Press, 1982. Crossing of rivers. Oxford University Press, 1985. Landscapes. Oxford University Press, 1987. A summer of tigers: poems. Indus, 1995. . The Minister for Permanent unrest & other stories. Orient Blackswan, 1996. . Night river: poems. Rupa & Co., 2000. . The Map-maker: Poems. Orient Blackswan, 2002. . The Scarecrow and the Ghost'Collected Poems (1970–2005). (Poetry in English). Penguin Books India., 2006. For Pepper & Christ. New Delhi: Penguin, 2010. Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama.. New Delhi: Simon & Schuster India, 2018. In popular culture J. P. Dutta's Bollywood film Refugee is attributed to have been inspired by the story of Keki N. Daruwalla based around the Great Rann of Kutch titled "Love Across the Salt Desert" which is also included as one of the short stories in the School Standard XII syllabus English textbook of NCERT in India. Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (1976) ed. by R. Parthasarathy and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi The Oxford India Anthology