WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF INDIANNESS IN NISSIN EZEIKEL'S POETRY.

I think
that the term Indianness has to be defined in clearer terms.  I am not certain as to what this
is.  Certainly, with the advent of globalization, the concept of Indianness has been filtered
through a cosmopolitan lens and there is much there where differing conceptions, unclear and
potentially competing, reside.  In poems such as The Night of the Scorpion, Ezekiel writes of
a world where India is present.  The small villages, the conflict between modernity and
tradition, the role of religion in such a setting where there might not be much in way of
singularity might be a part of what can be considered Indianness.  When he writes of how
different forces of people and of ideas converge on the individual, rendering them a bit
incapable of making a clear and decisive judgment about the situation, Ezekiel might be writing
of something that might fit the conception of Indianness.  Yet, I think that one has to be
careful of such a label, for individuals might simply seek to reduce the character and identity
of what it means to be Indian to these assertions, not truly recognizing the complexity of
their thought or of Ezekiels work.  Given the face that complexity and divergence of thought
seems to be present in his work, Ezekiel might suggest that the same principles be applied to
the concept of Indianness.