‘Faith is trapped in the teeth of fire’: Two poems by Gulzar on India today

Gulzar

· Apr 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Out of Syllabus’: Three poems from Sumana Roy’s dazzling debut collection

Sumana Roy

· Apr 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

Akhil Katyal’s poetry observes, records, and churns present-day truths

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

Thousands of years before becoming a vegan hit, the jackfruit was an intrinsic part of Sangam poetry

Veena Muthuraman

· Apr 06, 2019 · 07:45 am

‘An assemblage of images’: How Delhi and its architecture influenced the poetry of Octavio Paz

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Mar 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published

Radhika Oberoi

· Mar 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

This new ghazal by Javed Akhtar is a clarion call for writers to wield their pens in dark times

Javed Akhtar

· Mar 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2019 · 09:02 am

How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice

Nachiket Joshi

· Mar 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘In the days of war, the sun does not rise, it is always night’: Two poems on what war brings us

Zeeshan Sahil Balraj Komal

· Mar 11, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Imagine a world where tanks can be libraries’ (as John Lennon might have): Two poems by Nabina Das

Nabina Das

· Mar 09, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 08, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal

Kumar Vikal

· Mar 07, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘How were we done for in this war?’: Three poems by women poets from Sri Lanka ask the same question

Sivaramani Paamathi Anar

· Mar 06, 2019 · 12:30 pm

War and death: Two poems by WB Yeats and Rudyard Kipling that remind us of the futility

WB Yeats Rudyard Kipling

· Mar 05, 2019 · 10:30 am

Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?

Robert Alter, Aeon

· Mar 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Why did we fight at all? asked the Pandavas’: Three poems mourning war by K Satchidanandan

K Satchidanandan

· Mar 03, 2019 · 12:30 pm