Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) [1] was an Indian poet, actor, playwright, editor, and art critic.

[5] Ezekiel has been applauded for his subtle, restrained and well crafted diction, dealing with common and mundane (everyday) themes in a manner that manifests both cognitive profundity, as well as an unsentimental, realistic sensibility, that has been influential on the course of succeeding Indian English poetry.

Ezekiel enriched and established Indian English language poetry through his modernist innovations and techniques, which enlarged Indian English literature, moving it beyond purely spiritual and orientalist themes, to include a wider range of concerns and interests, including familial events, individual angst and skeptical societal introspection.

After three and a half years, Ezekiel worked his way home as a deck-scrubber aboard a ship carrying arms to Indochina.

Ezekiel uses his poetry as a way to make remarks on the period emphasizing his approach to modernity and encompassing his personal life.

A Time to Change may be a small volume with just around thirty-five pages, but it holds great significance in terms of its quality and historical importance.

In addition, A Time To Change represents Ezekiel's talent for presenting an incident in dew stanzas and his ability to use gentle irony with sadistic humor.

A Time to Change depicts a book that fights larger concerns such as power, communication and the limitations of languages in the world.

In Ezekiel's earlier works much of the collection was defined by large language with a focus on rhyme, meter, and poetic form.

Ezekiel also uses the "itrinsic" approach which focuses on the elements of the literature in itself such as using metaphors, similes, images, and the techniques that are found in the text.

[15] After working as an advertising copywriter and general manager of a picture frame company (1954–59), he co-founded the literary monthly Jumpo, in 1961.

In 1969, at the Writers Workshop, Ezekiel[16] published his Three Plays which includes Nalini, Marriage Poem, The Sleep-walkers.