P. Lal founds WW with the help of a “magical circle” of writer friends including Anita Desai
1959
1959
The house that P. Lal built in Lake Gardens begins to host regular Sunday morning readings and meetings
1960
1960
First issue of the house journal, The Miscellany, containing Desai’s story “Grandmother”
1960
Nissim Ezekiel’s The Unfinished Man published (not his first book, which had come out elsewhere)
1961
1961
WW enters literary criticism with the pamphlet titled Indian Writing in English: A Symposium
1962
1962
Adil Jussawalla’s debut, Land’s End
1965
1965
A. K. Ramanujan’s Fifteen Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology and Lal’s The Bhagavad-Gita see WW embarking on English translations of Indian literature, one of its key domains eventually.
1967
1967
The Descendants (Kamala Das), Of Gods and Olives (Pritish Nandy), Poems (Suniti Namjoshi)
1968
1968
Debuts of Gauri Deshpande (Between Births) and G. S. Sharat Chandra (Bharata Natyam Dancer)
1969
1969
The 600-page Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and a Credo published as an answer to Buddhadeva Bose’s anti-English campaign.
