Poems
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‘Your voice / wakes the / bird in its cage / inside my ribs’: Five modern-day Sangam love poems
Kala Krishnan
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‘Absent People, Absent Places’: Saranya Subramanian’s poetic language is ingenious and at ease
Smitha Sehgal
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‘A strange reticence / laps at the shores reason’: An elegiac tribute to the impossibility of speech
Naveen Kishore
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‘One swallow / the earth remembers rain’: Poems on shared experiences in late-stage capitalism
Vinita Agrawal
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‘Life tips the scales, every now and then’: These poems are a eulogy to loss, grief and a new start
Jayshree Misra Tripathi
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‘Everything changes / Everything remains’: Poems of love and longing in a city
Buku Sarkar
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‘In the morning, when the city is still dreaming’: Poems of evolving urban and interior geography
Aranya Padil
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‘Clamour for a Handful of Rice’: War, memory, and the human condition in Sonnet Mondal’s poems
Nazir Wani
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‘I come to you, to go nowhere’: When the domestic space becomes a site of quiet resistance
Pooja Ugrani
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‘Field Notes on Kindness’: Ankush Banerjee’s poems probe how men relearn the languages of empathy
Babitha Marina Justin
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‘Today, we are diving into / The anatomy of emotions’: Poems on desire and divine destinations
Srijani Mitra
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‘The whole city / an open wound / bleeding / never clotting ’: Coming to terms with the nation-state
Saranya Subramanian
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‘Can God reside where hate reigns?’: Poetry as witness, elegy, and quiet rebellion
Satya Mohanty
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‘Of Least Concern’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s new book of poems is a lesson in attentiveness
Smitha Sehgal
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‘Folie à Deux’: Jennifer Robertson’s poems comb through personal history with clinical finesse
Aditya Shiledar
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‘Brown God’s Child’: Sadness and rebirth, darkness and light, come together in Smitha Sehgal’s poems
Nazir Wani
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‘Time is just a memory/ of slow recognitions/ step crossing through infinity’: Poems for a new year
Anu Majumdar
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‘Winter lingers over the sleeping sand dunes’: Five end-of-year poems by Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar
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‘Without you this is / A false spring’: A new book of poems on how love transforms the seasons
Nirmal Ghosh
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‘Designed to be devoid of purpose’: Poems that aver that we cannot fully possess our lives
CP Surendran