Writers Workshop remembers and celebrates Pritish Nandy as the 16-year-old poet who came to Professor P. Lal with his first manuscript of poetry, Of Gods and Olives (which we published in 1967). He wrote about his experience with P. Lal, who gave him the “confidence no one else was willing to offer” in his homage, “To Sir With Love“. Of Gods and Olives went on to become “A huge hit and was widely acclaimed” as Pritish Nandy described later in an interview. His […]