Adil Jehangir Jussawalla (born 8 April 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian poet,[1][2] magazine editor and translator.
It is actually a response to the historical incident of partition in the year 1947 according to the poet, Bombay is a 'Surrogate City'.
He was born to a Parsi family[4] and completed his primary education at the Cathedral and John Connon School in 1956.
In 1989, he was promoted to editor and served in that position for several years, after which he returned to his writing career.
[6] Together with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Arun Kolatkar and Gieve Patel, he helped create "Clearing House", a poet's publishing co-operative.