Poetry
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These poems by Amal Mathew and Satya Dash have won the 2026 Osmosis Poetry Prize
Amal Mathew Satya Dash
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‘Send no rescue missions for us’: In Tishani Doshi’s new book of poems, birds are omens and oracles
Tishani Doshi
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‘Silence Has a Sound’: Mitra Samal’s direct articulation in her poems ensures emotional intimacy
Abhik Ganguly
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‘Doubters have saved mankind’: K Sachidanandan’s poetic imagination as a site of resistance
EV Ramakrishnan
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‘I shall not be present / to witness the language / I killed’: Five poems of hypocrisy and poverty
Sutputra Radheye
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The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI
Krupa Shandilya, The Conversation
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How to write a compelling climate haiku
Sam Illingworth, The Conversation
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‘Birthing his pain into a poem’: A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka’s history
KS Nisar Ahmed Roopa Pai
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Long before AI ‘food dramas’, there was Arabic and Persian culinary poetry
Neha Vermani
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‘Voices of Emergency’: How an anthology of protest poetry spoke out against constitutional injustice
R Raj Rao
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‘O lord, above all else/ Through my counted years, let my contentment last’: Five poems of recovery
Nomita Kapur
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Daisy Rockwell makes a case for translation as a ‘three-legged race’ and ‘a huge goddamn wedding’
Daisy Rockwell
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The art of painting Urdu
Shweta Upadhyay, Impart
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‘I want to be your bruised prayer’: Poems of love, queerness, and resistance
Aditya Tiwari
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How philosopher KC Bhattacharyya appealed for liberation from British ‘cultural subjection’
Neera Chandhoke
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‘Had I another life, I’d spend more time translating’: Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on turning 80
Digvijay Nikam
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Jeff Bezos says poetry without rhyming is easy – but it’s not that simple
Bronwyn Lea, The Conversation
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‘See how my murshid ... rows us through the world’s chaos’: Poems for every month of the year
Peero Neeti Singh
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‘Yellow with the droppings of the sun’: Three poems by Mukul Kesavan for the season
Mukul Kesavan
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Bring It on Home: How Bob Dylan reshaped popular music in Eastern India
Arka Chakraborty