The Best of Quest
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Edited by Laeeq Futehally, Achal Prabhala, Arshia Sattar
Tranquebar Press,
694 pages, R695
In 1954, a new magazine appeared out of Bombay with Nissim Ezekiel at its helm. Titled Quest (“a quarterly of inquiry, criticism and ideas”), it went on to live a respectable two decades until Indira Gandhi’s Emergency brought on its collapse. Many of the names that light up newspapers, magazines, academic journals and television screens today first made their mark in Quest. This volume collects some of the most striking essays, poems and stories that appeared in the magazine.
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