Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

Hemang Desai

· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma

Salma

· Apr 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh

· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Ranjit Hoskote’s new book ‘Hunchprose’ offers a nourishing needlework of finely wrought poetry

Sarabjeet Garcha

· Apr 03, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How are sexuality, poetry and spirituality connected? Poet Hoshang Merchant joins the dots

Hoshang Merchant

· Apr 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us

Shuktara Lal

· Mar 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain

Kunwar Narain

· Mar 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Why do you shed tears, Malanna? Rise like a sword, Madiganna!’: Gaddar’s anthems for the revolution

Gaddar

· Mar 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations

Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation

· Mar 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A galaxy of underground poets of Bengal emerge in this book as truth-tellers and myth-busters

Parthapratim Dasgupta

· Mar 06, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19

Saumya R Kedia

· Feb 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why we need poet John Keats’s concept of suspending judgment in today’s polarised world

Richard Gunderman, The Conversation

· Feb 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated

C Michael Sampson, The Conversation

· Feb 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Christina Thatcher, The Conversation

· Feb 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Poet Amanda Gorman’s riff on love as legacy points to youth’s power to shape future generations

Heather Lawford, The Conversation Heather L Ramey, The Conversation Jessica Riddell, The Conversation

· Feb 08, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Feb 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?

Ajmal Khan AT

· Feb 01, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Hindi poetry performance evaluates the ‘state of our democracy’ based on the events of 2020

Scroll Staff

· Jan 26, 2021 · 12:14 pm

Watch: Amanda Gorman explains how the US Capitol siege inspired her Inauguration Day poem

Scroll Staff

· Jan 22, 2021 · 10:41 am

‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry

Gopi Chand Narang

· Jan 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm