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Abhay K
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Read three poems from a poetry anthology about the ecological crises confronting the planet
An excerpt from ‘Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry’, edited by K Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla.
Abhay K, Shanta Acharya & Usha Akella
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‘We are the angry men, loud and meaningless as screeching fighter jets in a war zone’
‘We are the hollow men,’ TS Eliot had written. A poem on war.
Abhay K
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‘An ascetic meditating – turned upside down – the baobab tree’: the Magic of Madagascar in haikus
An excerpt from the introduction and 12 haikus from ‘La Magie de Madagascar|The Magic of Madagascar’, by Abhay K.
Abhay K
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Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Why did a Union minister say he would apply for Indian citizenship under CAA?
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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India’s latest GDP growth numbers are ‘mystifying’, says former chief economic advisor
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Christmas conjunction of planets: Ten anthems for the solar system
On Monday, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn come together in the sky over Earth for the legendary ‘Christmas kiss’.
Abhay K
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This new anthology of love poems from India sweeps through histories, geographies and societies
An excerpt from editor Abhay K’s ‘Introduction’ to ‘The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems’.
Abhay K
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Kalidasa was an early practitioner of ecopoetry, a genre that the world is waking up to now
The poet-dramatist’s genius brought the ecological and the sensual together.
Abhay K
Video
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Caught on camera: Container ship hits and knocks down gantry cranes while docking at a Turkey port
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Watch: Temple in Kochi gets a mechanical elephant to perform prayer rituals
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Watch: Srinagar hosts Formula 4 car show on the roads around Dal Lake
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Watch: Scenes of damage after four coaches of a Sabarmati-Agra train were derailed in Ajmer
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Adorable animals: Playful elephant calf keeps stopping cleaner from raking leaves
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Six poems that offer a virtual journey through Latin America in the age of the lockdown
An excerpt from ‘A-Z, The Alphabets of Latin America’, a collection of 108 poems by poet-diplomat Abhay K.
Abhay K
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How an Indian diplomat created an anthology of poetry on the world’s capitals
Abhay K wanted to find a poem from, or about, every single capital city on the planet. He almost succeeded.
Abhay K
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‘The Partitioned Land (After TS Eliot)’: A poem to recollect Kashmir and Independence
‘Lord Mountbatten, a seer, clairvoyant / had a hunch, nevertheless / the shrewdest politician in the British Empire...’
Abhay K
The Reel
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‘Adrishyam’ trailer: Eijaz Khan and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya play undercover agents
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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‘Crew’ trailer: Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon play stewardesses involved in smuggling
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‘I wanted to land this film correctly’: Why actor Kunal Kemmu chose to direct ‘Madgaon Express’