New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- Doing a little too well with a specific mode of writing can often obscure other parts of a writer's oeuvre. Ted Hughes, renowned for his poetry for grown-ups, also wrote one of the finest, weirdest children's books ever-The Iron Man (1968)-but is seldom remembered in that light. Stephen King, synonymous with the horror genre, has also written the excellent On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000), a manual cited by A-list writers and creative writing curricula around the world. In a similar vein, I discovered the work of Mahadevi Varma as a teenager through her very well-known poetry collections like Neerja (1933), Sandhyageet (1935) and Deepshikha (1942), seen as landmark works, especially in the context of Chhayava...