Poetry
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‘Failure is an opportunity. Failure is art. Failure is human’: Poet Raena Shirali
Mariyam Haider
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‘The writing lost its way, and found its end in you’: Five poems by writer-activist Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita
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‘The Natural Language of Grief’: These poems voice the anxieties of the pandemic, nature, existence
Tabish Nawaz
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Watch: Italian opera singer and pianist perform Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry through music
Scroll Staff
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This new anthology of poems brings together poetry readings held online and at a Mumbai bookstore
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How Kabir Suman’s album of urban ballads, ‘Tomake Chai’, caused a ‘culture-quake’ in Bengali music
Sayandeb Chowdhury Rajendran Narayanan
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‘I always worried he writes better than me’: Gulzar reads his lighthearted poem for Javed Akhtar
Scroll Staff
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‘After’: Vivek Narayanan’s book of poetry joins the long list of Valmiki ‘Ramayana’ retellings
Mani Rao
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‘Glosy/Voices’: An elegy to protesting citizens of Poland who were massacred by the communist regime
Elsa Mathews
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‘Ambedkar dwells within me, Ambedkar dwells within you’: Anita Bharti’s poetry tribute to Babasaheb
Nikhil Pandhi
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Award-winning novelist Amitabha Bagchi translates Urdu poet Muneer Niazi’s ghazals in a new book
Muneer Niazi
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Poetry: Telugu poet Afsar Mohammad has been translated for the first time into English
Afsar Mohammad
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‘Knotted Grief’: Poetry on shared and private griefs show how sorrow can be an essential life force
Sayari Debnath
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A new translation of ‘Saundarya Lahari’ has revived the ancient Sanskrit text for modern readers
Mani Rao
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US Poet laureate Ada Limón explores ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’
Amy Cannon, The Conversation
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‘Extinctions’: Sharmistha Mohanty’s rich and plentiful writing demands several rounds of re-reading
Janice Pariat
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Nandana Dev Sen on how she translated her mother Nabaneeta’s poetry – in life and after her death
Nandana Dev Sen
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‘Monsoon’: Abhay K’s book-length poem running across 150 four-line stanzas is a delight of geography
Roomy Naqvy
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‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry
Sayari Debnath
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‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage
Rana Safvi