Uses Of Poetry
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Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers
They push back against narratives of heterosexual relationships or romantic coupling being the most important relationship in a person’s life.
Shannon McHugh, The Conversation
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‘...Everything, everything is gone’: The aesthetics of First World War poems and what they mean now
Poets began to realise that the war would bring nothing but widespread destruction.
Rashmi Mehta
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‘We love life if we find a way to it’: Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s enduring absences
The path to enduring peace is through remembering the humanity of others, especially those who may be on the other end of our political beliefs.
Kaushik Barua
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Can BJP use Ram as a campaign tool during the election?
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A/nil’s new book of poetry, ‘The Absent Color’, is a conversation – of, for, and by himself
A/nil spoke of his bafflement with borders, of the Bengali minority dominating the local tribal majority and the isolation that united him and Ambedkar.
Swati Singh
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‘Don’t weep, my child; your mom will come’: A ghazal for a child in war-ravaged Gaza
‘There won’t be wounds, blood or debris. In sleep, my child; your mom will come.’
Ammar Aziz
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‘There is a ban even on breathing’: Leftist poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on the horrors of war
‘We, the peace-loving, just need six feet of land to survive.’
Birendra Chattopadhyay & Sayandeb Chowdhury
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Poetry on campus: Verses by two poets about the sights around their universities
Poems by Nikita Parik and Namrata Pathak.
Nikita Parik & Namrata Pathak
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‘We pointed to the potential’: Priya Sarukkai Chabria as e-journal ‘Poetry at Sangam’ shuts down
‘Poetry at Sangam is an inclusive space. Here, poetry holds dazzling display of forms and formulations of language, emotion, thought, and sacrality.’
Mani Rao
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The inheritance of loss: ‘History may be written by victors but songs are sung by survivors’
‘The human life is the greatest metaphor of all. How are we to say what a life could do and what it could be?’
Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Alison James, Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas & Avik Chanda
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Ambedkarite poet NK Hanumantayya wrote lyrically to articulate the pain and hopes of the oppressed
His way of responding to the unjust world he inhabited was recognised by both readers and critics.
Kamalakar Bhat
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‘Ambedkar dwells within me, Ambedkar dwells within you’: Anita Bharti’s poetry tribute to Babasaheb
The four poems have been translated from the Hindi by Nikhil Pandhi.
Nikhil Pandhi
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‘A woman and fire are as ancient as civilisation’: Six Dalit-feminist poems by Poonam Tushamad
Translated from the Hindi by Nikhil Pandhi.
Poonam Tushamad
The Field
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go