Poems
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‘Who are these people / who keep coming / to kill peace?’: Poems of hunger, war in an age of excess
Sonnet Mondal
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‘The skin of this love poem is grafted / on other poems’: A mixed tape of memory and defiance
Srividya Sivakumar
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‘I slough off my body and wander / into faithless verses’: Memory and nature meet in these poems
Smitha Sehgal
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‘They Gather Around Me, the Animals’: Kunjana Parashar’s poetry unites the domestic and the wild
Srijani Mitra
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‘I found it’s even okay / not to have questions’: A new world within the folds of the old
Arundhathi Subramaniam
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‘What this minute needs is a deep breath’: Poems of restless freedom and urgent imperative of dreams
Basudhara Roy
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‘To be out again inside the world’: These poems mirror slices of a life spent in the solace of art
Amlanjyoti Goswami
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‘I am stone, barely warmed by the fire’: These poems merge inner and outer worlds, ephemeral moments
Neera Kashyap
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‘Untamed grief often turns feral, runs wild’: Poems that reimagine histories and feminine agency
Jennifer Robertson
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‘In our house of the omnipresent / we are more than vaastu compliant’: Mani Rao’s new book of poems
Mani Rao
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‘The day begins with endings’: A new book of poetry about topography, time, and shifting identities
Siddhartha Menon
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‘The world transfers / Man / Into its own / Resonance’: Five poems about humanity’s ‘zero hour’
Anu Majumdar
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‘you touch my skin / a riot breaks out inside of me’: These poems bridge the self and nature
Devashish Makhija
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‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
Ammar Aziz
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‘You don’t have to look far to understand exile’: These poems are a call to our common humanity
Pramila Venkateswaran
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‘I am the Mighty, Ancient Himalaya / Carve me at your peril’: Six poems about rebooting the planet
Tansy Troy
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‘We’ll survive somehow’: Five poems by Indian poets to ring in the new year
Eunice de Souza Mamang Dai Ashok Vajpeyi Rahul Soni Muktabai Jerry Pinto Neela Bhagwat Faiz Ahmed Faiz Keki N Daruwalla
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‘I am filled with desires but have no experience in love’: Five end-of-year poems by Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar
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‘Our shadows drag us back’: Poems by 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner Ramesh Karthik Nayak
Ramesh Karthik Nayak
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‘To ride the river, to know desire’: Five poems from Jeet Thayil’s new book of poetry
Jeet Thayil