Hindi poetry
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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Rangsaaj Ki Rasoi’, by Arun Kamal
Arun Kamal
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‘Treasurer of Piggy Banks’: The cosmic and the planetary in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘Birth alone is a harsh prison’: Read Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori’s verses translated into English
Leeladhar Jagoori Matt Reeck
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‘We stretched our hands out to touch the light’: A new book of prose poems by Manav Kaul
Manav Kaul Nandini Kumar Nickerson
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‘Her loveliness will thrill you’: Biharilal’s Hindi verses from the Murty Classical Library
Biharilal Rupert Snell
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‘I’ve sacrificed all to that face of yours’: Surdas’s Hindi poetry from the Murty Classical Library
Surdas John Stratton Hawley
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‘I find the constraints of the original text liberating to work with’: Translator Rahul Soni
Sayari Debnath
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‘Witnesses of Remembrance’: Kunwar Narain’s poetry preserves the words and sentiments he cared for
Basudhara Roy
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‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain
Kunwar Narain
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Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’
Mangalesh Dabral
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‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh
Kedarnath Singh
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‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC
Ian Woolford
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Watch: Here’s what prompted an Australia-based Hindi professor to recite Dhoomil’s poetry
Scroll Staff
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Yours, Amrita: Remembering poet and writer Amrita Pritam on her 100th birth anniversary
Kanupriya Dhingra
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‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal
Kumar Vikal
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‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) was above all a humanist poet, profound in his simplicity
Santosh Alex
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Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything
Annie Zaidi
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Hindi poet Kunwar Narain, a Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith Award winner, dies at 90
Scroll Staff
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Why the Hindi poetry establishment is enraged by Shubham Shree’s irreverent, prizewinning poem
Daisy Rockwell Mangalesh Dabral Shubham Shree