Poetry
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’Twas The Night Before Christmas...made the modern Santa Claus and became a literary whodunit
Melissa Chim, The Conversation
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Adele, Taylor Swift: Why break-up songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantic poets
Anthony Howe, The Conversation
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Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully
Pavitra Mohan
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‘An ascetic meditating – turned upside down – the baobab tree’: the Magic of Madagascar in haikus
Abhay K
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This anthology of verse by British authors of the Raj is a caustic commentary on colonial India
Graham Shaw
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‘There is a woman in me rising out of all the ones that aren’t’: Four poems by Karuna Ezara Parikh
Karuna Ezara Parikh
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Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Rahim combined war with poetry
Pavitra Mohan
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‘It isn’t mine alone to mend’: Spoken word poet brings voices of refugees to Glasgow climate summit
Scroll Staff
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Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: Namdeo’s search for the formless god
Pavitra Mohan
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K Satchidanandan’s poems in ‘Questions from the Dead’ confront the environmental crisis
Gopal Lahiri
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Archana Venkatesan wins international translation award for her translation of 1102-verse Tamil poem
Nammāḻvār
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‘We grew heavier not with grief but numbers’: Three poems from Rohan Chhetri’s new book
Rohan Chhetri
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How Binoy Majumdar re-wrote the grammar of Dalit poetry and politics, and was ostracised for it
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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‘Polytheists, monotheists, infidels tell me there is no country for writers’: Five poems on freedom
Ashwani Kumar
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‘What does it mean to be born in a graveyard?’: Three poems from Tishani Doshi’s new book of poetry
Tishani Doshi
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‘Books of an occupied land carry corpses of all ages’: Poems for Samir Mansour Bookshop in Gaza
Karan Kapoor Antara Rao Alolika Dutta Saima Afreen Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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A new anthology brings together poetry of dissent from all over India
Nabina Das Nirupama Dutt
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‘Because he did not stop for death’: Four poems for photographer Danish Siddiqui
Alolika Dutta Karan Kapoor Antara Rao Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative
Priya Satia
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Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition
Priya Satia