Poetry
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‘Call now or panic later’: Watch poet Aranya Johar’s novel perspective on social anxiety
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‘A Hindu for everyone’: This Hindi poem attempts to explain what it means to be a Hindu
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Watch: ‘Hum Dekhenge’, sung in Kannada, marks CAA-NRC protest in Bengaluru
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Listen: ‘Ve Musalman The,’ a powerful composition by Hindi poet Devi Prasad Mishra
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‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem
Ali Sethi
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‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Watch: What is Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’ about? This translation helps understand
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The Art of Resistance: ‘Why should we not try just once?’ Six poems of protest
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CAA protest watch: When Hussain Haidry’s ‘Hindustani Musalmaan’ rang out at Mumbai’s Azaad Maidan
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‘Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai:’ Watch Rahat Indori recite his poem, now part of CAA protests
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These glimpses of poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s work shows his greatness cannot be grasped fully
Rita Kothari
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This medieval feminist wrote about domestic abuse and sexuality, and composed an ode to the vagina
Rhea Seren Phillips, The Conversation
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‘I will not italicise all the parts of myself that make no sense to you’: The poetry of Jasmin Kaur
Jasmin Kaur
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Against a certain idea of writing: What Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s book of essays tells us about him
Vineet Gill
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Why French poet Charles Baudelaire was the godfather of modern day Goths
Nick Freeman, The Conversation
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Who really wrote the lines ‘If there is Paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this’?
Rana Safvi
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‘Each gulp is a dagger’: Five poets respond to the altered reality of Kashmir after the lockdown
Shikha Malaviya
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Watch: Here’s what prompted an Australia-based Hindi professor to recite Dhoomil’s poetry
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‘Someone’s going astray in Goregaon, we’re all lost halfway in Goregaon’: Poetry for the rootless
Mihir Chitre
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‘Karmic Chanting’: Sonnet Mondal’s poetry uses rich metaphors and elegant anguish to depict a quest
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