Poet
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From the memoir: Poet Akhtarul Iman on the conflict between Urdu writers’ groups in India
Akhtarul Iman Baidar Bakht
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‘The Tree Within’: Mexican poet Octavio Paz returns to India via Indranil Chakravarty’s biography
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘Saw monsters... blinded by flashes of beauty’: Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s first impression of India
Indranil Chakravarty
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From the memoir: How an Indian writer-poet carved out a path to a top arts college in New York
Biswamit Dwibedy
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Poet Walt Whitman used photography to curate his image – but ended up more lost than found
Trevin Corsiglia, The Conversation
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‘Perhaps I am not a poet at all’: Jayanta Mahapatra, who would have been 96 on this day
Sreekala Sivasankaran
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Keki Daruwalla (1937-2024): A sculptor of words with a keen ear for rhythm and metre
Sukrita Paul Kumar
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Munawwar Rana (1952-2024): Remembering the Urdu poet with ‘Maa’ and other poems he wrote
Scroll Staff
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A new novel imagines artist-poet Edward Lear’s little-known Indian sojourns
Anindyo Roy
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Saleem Peeradina (1944-2023) was a poet who taught as well as a teacher who wrote poetry
Salil Tripathi
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‘Failure is an opportunity. Failure is art. Failure is human’: Poet Raena Shirali
Mariyam Haider
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US Poet laureate Ada Limón explores ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’
Amy Cannon, The Conversation
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Poet Keki Daruwalla’s new book of short fiction explores family ties with mysterious tales
Keki N Daruwalla
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Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report
Scroll Staff
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‘All routes to death’: A personal essay of friendship with Agha Shahid Ali in the early 1980s in USA
Padmini Mongia
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How the Gujarati poet Narmadashankar Dave went from promiscuity to religiousness
Narmadashankar Dave Tulsi Vatsal Aban Mukherji
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What reading Kamla Bhasin taught a professor of English literature (and her students)
Antara Datta
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The new biography of Agha Shahid Ali is a love letter to the poet but not a critical view of a life
Niyati Bhat
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Siddalingaiah (1954-2021): The Dalit poet who broke the rules and challenged the norms
S R Ramakrishna
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Siddalingaiah (1954-2021): What the Dalit writer’s memoir reveals of his student days
Siddalingaiah