Bombay that is Mumbai that is Momoi that is Mhamai has been declared as unsuitable for song by the progenitor of modernism in Indian poetry written in English, Nissim Ezekiel. And yet it has been home to several fine poets including Dom Moraes, Adil Jussawalla, Eunice de Souza and others. At our Online Talk #OdesToMumbai, Bombay-Bambai-Mumbai-Momoi-Mhamai poet and writer Jerry Pinto talks about his city and its poetry.

About the speaker

Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor, a journalist, an editor, a writer and an author. But in his own description of himself, he is a poet. His first book of poems Asylum (Allied Publishers) was released in 2004 and reissued by Speaking Tiger this year along with a collection of new poems, I Want A Poem and Other Poems. He was a member of the Poetry Circle, Mumbai.