Can the body be a metaphor of protest? These poems by four women poets show us how

Karthika Nair Priya Sarukkai Chabria K Srilata Anupama Raju

· Apr 19, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Watch: These poetry reading sessions took literature into locked down lives via Instagram

Preksha Sharma

· Apr 16, 2020 · 08:15 am

Nature’s rhythm and rhyme: Remembering William Wordsworth 250 years since his birth

Sally Bushell, The Conversation

· Apr 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘I’ve recently discovered I’m a shitty person’: Writer Rega Jha’s spoken word on ‘Being Problematic’

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· Apr 11, 2020 · 08:17 am

‘Quarantine’: A sonnet for the lockdown by Mukul Kesavan

Mukul Kesavan

· Apr 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Learning from the lockdown: Three poems by Jerry Pinto on lessons from living in isolation

Jerry Pinto

· Apr 06, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Watch: Writer Aatish Taseer reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’ in lockdown

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· Apr 05, 2020 · 09:50 am

How a 13th century Persian poem reminds us that the coronavirus crisis calls for a global response

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, The Conversation

· Mar 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America

Jason Miller, The Conversation

· Mar 30, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Watch: Actor and musician Riz Ahmed’s new short film ‘The Long Goodbye’ explores racism in the UK

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· Mar 15, 2020 · 12:50 pm

Cats: Ghazal writers Mir and Ghalib composed these poems about the animal that rules social media

Mir Taqi Mir Mirza Ghalib Prashant Keshavmurthy

· Mar 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘When will you show your documents?’: The poem for which Kannada poet Siraj Bisaralli was arrested

Dhanya Gopal

· Mar 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Listen: ‘I Think I Hear The Dead Speak,’ a poem written for victims of mob violence in Delhi

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· Feb 28, 2020 · 11:08 am

Watch writer Kausar Munir’s heartrending and heartwarming poem ‘Woh Kaghaz Kahan Se Laaoon’

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· Feb 28, 2020 · 09:18 am

‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Feb 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?

Ali Khan Mahmudabad

· Feb 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC

Ian Woolford

· Feb 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

Michael Field, a 19th century poet with an elite readership, was created by a lesbian couple

Sarah Parker, The Conversation

· Feb 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘I gift you a rugged map carved from cracks between divorced nations’: Five poems from Kashmir

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Main Hindustan Ki Beti Hu’: Watch this moving composition by a Lucknow student protestor

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· Jan 21, 2020 · 03:33 pm