A new translation of ‘Saundarya Lahari’ has revived the ancient Sanskrit text for modern readers

Mani Rao

· Oct 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

US Poet laureate Ada Limón explores ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’

Amy Cannon, The Conversation

· Oct 03, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Extinctions’: Sharmistha Mohanty’s rich and plentiful writing demands several rounds of re-reading

Janice Pariat

· Oct 01, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Nandana Dev Sen on how she translated her mother Nabaneeta’s poetry – in life and after her death

Nandana Dev Sen

· Sep 30, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Monsoon’: Abhay K’s book-length poem running across 150 four-line stanzas is a delight of geography

Roomy Naqvy

· Sep 25, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry

Sayari Debnath

· Sep 18, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage

Rana Safvi

· Sep 18, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Spring settles here on the horizon of the heart’: Banaras through the eyes of Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib Maaz Bin Bilal

· Aug 25, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Thirty two nights and dawns’: Three poems from Sharmistha Mohanty’s new book of poetry (in prose)

Sharmistha Mohanty

· Aug 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘After Sappho’ reimagines the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf

Francesca Rendle-Short, The Conversation

· Aug 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India

Nikhil Govind

· Aug 07, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘A woman and fire are as ancient as civilisation’: Six Dalit-feminist poems by Poonam Tushamad

Poonam Tushamad

· Jul 25, 2022 · 08:30 am

Reflections on poetry and a ‘quiet friendship’ with the award winning poet Jayanta Mahapatra

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

· Jul 10, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘The hunger hidden’: Four poets and twelve poems to remember pride month

Curated by Kinshuk Gupta

· Jun 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Pride Month: Twelve poems by four poets that reflect on queerness

Curated by Kinshuk Gupta

· Jun 10, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘My Pain’: Musician AR Rahman and poet Dana Dajani collaborate for episode of Firdaus Sessions

Scroll Staff

· May 29, 2022 · 04:59 pm

‘Very old their sorrow’: Three political poems for our times by Adnan Kafeel Darwesh

Adnan Kafeel Darwesh

· May 27, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘We come to wait for the names of the fallen’: Five poems, political and personal, by Sabitha Satchi

Sabitha Satchi

· May 15, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Does identity relate to nation? New books from Aanchal Malhotra and Jeet Thayil examine the idea

Vivek Tejuja

· May 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Arms raised, a leafless tree prays for its death’: Five poems on loneliness and memories

Sonnet Mondal

· Apr 25, 2022 · 05:30 pm