 ZULFIKAR

Born March 13, GHOSHE

1935 (age 85)
Sialkot, Punjab, India
Born in Sialkot, India.(now
Occupation novelist, poet, essayist Pakistan), 2] His father,
Khwaja Mohammed
Education Keele Ghose, was a
University.England.B.A businessman. In 1942,
during the Second World
War, the family moved
[3]
to Bombay (now Mumbai).  After the partition of British India into
Pakistan and India, Ghose and his family emigrated to England. [4] He
graduated from Keele University in 1959, [2] going on to teach at Ealing
[5]
Mead School in London. [1] He became a close friend of Anthony Smith, and of British experimental
writer B. S. Johnson,[6] with whom he collaborated on several projects. The three writers met when they
served as joint editors of an annual anthology of student poets called Universities' Poetry. Ghose also
met English poet Ted Hughes and his wife, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and American
author Janet Burroway, with whom he occasionally collaborated. [1]

While teaching and writing in London from 1963 to 1969, Ghose also freelanced as a sports journalist,
reporting on cricket for The Observer newspaper.[7][8] Two collections of his poetry were published, The
Loss of India (1964) and Jets From Orange (1967), as were an autobiography called Confessions of a
Native-Alien (1965) and his first two novels, The Contradictions (1966) and The Murder of Aziz
Khan (1969).

In 1964, Ghose married Helena de la Fontaine, [2] an artist from Brazil (a country he later used as the
setting for six of his novels). He moved from London to the United States in 1969 to teach at
the University of Texas in Austin[citation needed], where he has lived since.[8]

In the 1970s, Ghose gained international repute with his trilogy The Incredible BrazilianGhose has
written many poems as well as prosaics , fictional and non-fictional works. His books of poetry
include The Violent West, A Memory of Asia and Selected Poems. He has written short stories, novels
and five books of literary criticism.

1: Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.

Ans: Some phrases that are likely to occur in a Geography lesson are ‘the city had developed the way it
had’, ‘it scaled six inches to the mile’, ‘cities where the rivers ran’, and ‘the valleys were populated’.

2: Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears

(i) as haphazard as on ground.

(ii) as neat as a map.

(iii) as developed as necessary.

Mark the right Answer.

Ans: (iii) as developed as necessary.

3: Which of the following statements are examples of “the logic of geography”?

(i) There are cities where there are rivers.

(ii) Cities appear as they are not from six miles above the ground.

(iii) It is easy to understand why valleys are populated.

(iv) It is difficult to understand why humans hate and kill one another.

(v) The earth is round, and it has more sea than land.

Ans: (i), (iii) and (iv) are the correct statements.

4: Mention two things that are

(i) clear from the height.

(ii) not clear from the height.

Ans: (i) From the height, it was clear why the country had cities where the rivers ran and why the valleys
were populated. It was also clear that the earth was round and that it had more sea than land.

(ii) From the height, it was not clear why the men on the earth found reasons to hate each other. It was
also not understandable why men had to build walls across cities and why they had to kill.