ABSTRACT
Adil Jussawalla started writing in the 1960s. He was influenced by T. S. Eliot and Nissim Ezekiel in diction. While abroad, he thought deeply about his condition as a once colonial subject who also happened to be homosexual. Fanon’s discourse in The Wretched of the Earth, according to an introduction by Sartre, deals with the aftermath of colonial oppression and the relationships that arise between the historically oppressed and their oppressors in a postcolonial world. Fanon preaches violent revolution as the correct and indeed natural course of action for the formerly colonised to pursue in order to raise their status from the likes of beasts of burden to men. R. Raj Rao’s Bomgay contains 20 short poems about Bombay gay life. R. Raj Rao strictly belongs to the second generation of poets. His mentor too was Ezekiel but he calls Jonathan Swift his literary ancestor.
