Persaud’s intellectual, philosophical engagement with India defines his inner self and imaginative landscape, says Shanta Acharya
In a Boston Night is Sasenarine Persaud’s seventh collection of poems. Also a novelist and short story writer, his awards include the K. M. Hunter Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award (1996), and the Arthur Schomburg Award (1999) for his literary aesthetics [...]

By Sasenarine Persaud
It is not often that one comes across a writer and critic like Peter Nazareth who tells you, up front, who he is and how he functions as a writer: “As a writer, I am interested in the practical side of writing: how it will help to change the world I am living [...]