Poetry
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‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami
Joy Goswami
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What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?
Saikat Majumdar
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‘There’s nothing open about a window’: Five poems by Jerry Pinto from his new book
Jerry Pinto
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Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’
Hemang
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‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma
Salma
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‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)
Shankha Ghosh
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Ranjit Hoskote’s new book ‘Hunchprose’ offers a nourishing needlework of finely wrought poetry
Sarabjeet Garcha
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How are sexuality, poetry and spirituality connected? Poet Hoshang Merchant joins the dots
Hoshang Merchant
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Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us
Shuktara Lal
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‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain
Kunwar Narain
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‘Why do you shed tears, Malanna? Rise like a sword, Madiganna!’: Gaddar’s anthems for the revolution
Gaddar
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Why controversies around cultural appropriation and identity politics should not end translations
Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation
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A galaxy of underground poets of Bengal emerge in this book as truth-tellers and myth-busters
Parthapratim Dasgupta
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‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19
Saumya R Kedia
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Why we need poet John Keats’s concept of suspending judgment in today’s polarised world
Richard Gunderman, The Conversation
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A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated
C Michael Sampson, The Conversation
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How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)
Christina Thatcher, The Conversation
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Poet Amanda Gorman’s riff on love as legacy points to youth’s power to shape future generations
Heather Lawford, The Conversation Heather L Ramey, The Conversation Jessica Riddell, The Conversation
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‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?
Ajmal Khan AT