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  • ‘Please apply your mind’: SC pulls up Gujarat Police for FIR against Congress MP over poem

    ‘Please apply your mind’: SC pulls up Gujarat Police for FIR against Congress MP over poem

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 10, 2025 · 05:28 pm
  • Watch: Parul Khakkar’s powerful poem on Covid-19 corpses in the Ganga is now a Punjabi song

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    · May 25, 2021 · 12:02 pm
  • ‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships

    ‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships

    Kate North, The Conversation
    · Feb 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • Watch: Powerful Urdu rendition of Varavara Rao’s poem ‘The Bard’

    Watch: Powerful Urdu rendition of Varavara Rao’s poem ‘The Bard’

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    · Dec 31, 2020 · 04:22 pm
  • ‘It’s like sowing seeds in your brain’: Jerry Pinto recites a poem on the importance of reading

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    · May 05, 2020 · 08:12 am
  • 'Footage for a trance': A poem by Ranjit Hoskote

    'Footage for a trance': A poem by Ranjit Hoskote

    Ranjit Hoskote
    · Jan 01, 2017 · 06:00 pm
  • 'A fable for the 21st Century': A poem by Tishani Doshi

    'A fable for the 21st Century': A poem by Tishani Doshi

    Tishani Doshi
    · Jan 01, 2017 · 12:00 pm
  • 'Malayalam’s ghazal': A poem by Jeet Thayil

    'Malayalam’s ghazal': A poem by Jeet Thayil

    Jeet Thayil
    · Jan 01, 2017 · 04:00 am
  • 'Prayer': A poem by Arundhathi Subramaniam

    'Prayer': A poem by Arundhathi Subramaniam

    Arundhathi Subramaniam
    · Jan 01, 2017 · 12:05 am