“Do I dare disturb the algorithm?” T S Eliot’s Prufrock would have asked were he living today. But Eliot lived almost a century back (1888-1965). His best poems were written in the early twentieth century. The persona of J Alfred Prufrock has remained with me from the time I read the poem first in my late twenties. Wasn’t there something of Prufrock in me? Was that the reason the character stayed with me for a long, very long period? Pr...