In Shillong, love (and life and the universe) in the time of the coronavirus

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

· Oct 05, 2020 · 08:33 am

‘We must risk delight’: Poetry may not cure us of the coronavirus, but it will heal us

Manan Kapoor

· Oct 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Listen: On poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s birth anniversary, actor Manoj Bajpayee recites his poem

Scroll Staff

· Sep 23, 2020 · 05:53 pm

Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems

Hoshang Merchant

· Sep 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Breathing. One does it through masks these days. Unless someone kneels on one’s neck’

Dilip M Menon

· Aug 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh

Kedarnath Singh

· Aug 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What happened when an Indian poet’s fellowship in Wales coincided with the advent of the pandemic

Shalim Hussain

· Aug 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

Poet-lyricist Rahat Indori (1950-2020): Watch some of his finest songs and his most famous poem

Scroll Staff

· Aug 11, 2020 · 08:58 pm

‘There is no god in that temple, said the hermit’: Rabindranath Tagore wrote this poem in 1900

Rabindranath Tagore

· Aug 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘We are going to meet soon’: Read these post-modern love poems in the bhakti tradition

Srivalli

· Aug 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Child artiste recites heartbreaking poem ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’

Scroll Staff

· Aug 02, 2020 · 10:53 am

The paradox of poetry in the pandemic: High online engagement, but are the books selling?

Uttaran Das Gupta

· Jul 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jul 27, 2020 · 07:45 am

Eight stylish South Asian poets in the diaspora you must read for their striking ideas

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jul 27, 2020 · 07:34 am

This anthology of queer poetry from South Asia inclusively builds bridges across diversity

Manjari Sahay

· Jul 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

First person: How a poetry-only publishing house is dealing with the pandemic (and how it grew)

Hemant Divate

· Jul 21, 2020 · 08:30 am

Kalidasa was an early practitioner of ecopoetry, a genre that the world is waking up to now

Abhay K

· Jul 19, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘Dogle’: Poet Hussain Haidry’s new work is for people who ‘refuse to pick a side’

Scroll Staff

· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:12 pm

‘Love transformed me from a swaggering slave: New translations of Rumi’s poetry by Farrukh Dhondy

Rumi

· Jul 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why sadness and reading Sylvia Plath go hand in hand for some millennials

Yamini Krishnan

· Jul 05, 2020 · 08:30 am