Poetry
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‘Hand on the placard, fist around the stone’: Five poems by Ranjit Hoskote viewing a ‘nation’s fate’
Ranjit Hoskote
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Celebrating Kishwar Naheed and eight decades of poetry and rebellion
Naazir Mahmood, Dawn.com
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‘Ab Tum Hi Kaho Kya Karna Hai’: One of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s famous last poems is now a song
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‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu
Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com
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‘For a friend who is in prison’: A writer’s poem for Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal
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‘It’s time to be free’: ‘Udaan’ actor Rajat Barmecha narrates poem on positivity
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The bigger fight: How Muhammad Ali inspired generations through words, not just his fists
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‘We must talk remembering love’: Six poems from Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s new book of poetry
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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Six poems that offer a virtual journey through Latin America in the age of the lockdown
Abhay K
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‘Nothing imagined is excessive’: Eleven poems for (and from) a world gripped by a pandemic
Perundevi
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Watch: Poet Sukrita Paul explores conversations with the Ganga in the times of the pandemic
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Watch: A digital collective organised this multilingual poetry reading session on ‘language of love’
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‘They will go to die there, where there is life’: Gulzar’s new poem on the plight of migrant workers
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‘The world in my solitary veins’: Three poems of air, water, and earth when locked down without them
Nabina Das
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‘Jobless migrants arrive in the deserted city...With them the flamingos’: Five lockdown poems
Ashwani Kumar
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As writers document the pandemic through poetry, here is a chance to understand this form
Andrew McMillan, The Conversation
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Nisar Ahmed (1936-2020): Three poems that show his concern with politics, philosophy, justice
Nisar Ahmed Roopa Pai
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When isolation is considered a virtue, poetry reveals the play of intimacy and distance
Aparna Uppaluri Laetitia Drahmani
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The art of solitude: K Satchidanandan writes poetry to live beyond Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter
K Satchidanandan
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Watch: Idris Elba, Kevin Pietersen, Bryan Adams, other stars recite Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’
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