Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats

Rifat Munim

· Mar 03, 2019 · 10:30 am

A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century

Saudamini Deo Philippe Charlier

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’: A soldier-poet’s cry against the cruelties of war

Wilfred Owen

· Mar 01, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Words from the Depth of Truth’: Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on war and destruction

Rabindranath Tagore

· Feb 28, 2019 · 07:30 pm

Poetry for peace: ‘Delay The War, It Is Better,’ wrote Sahir Ludhianvi

Sahir Ludhianvi

· Feb 28, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Politics, history and memory merge in these poems on Kashmir (and beyond)

Akhil Katyal

· Feb 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What a poet learned from Mary Oliver (1935-2019), who was unabashedly in love with the world

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women

Scroll Staff

· Jan 23, 2019 · 11:15 am

‘Terrarium’: Five poems that engage with the complexities of health with vivid originality

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

A collection of Vijay Nambisan’s poems allows us the opportunity to reframe his legacy

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave readers quietude, rich simplicity and narratives of nature

Apala Bhowmick

· Jan 20, 2019 · 07:00 am

How the ghazal traveled from 6th-century Arabia to Persia, India and the English-speaking world

Anisur Rahman

· Jan 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Not quite slam poetry: Watch Ramdas Athawale recite his poem in the Lok Sabha on the quota Bill

Scroll Staff

· Jan 09, 2019 · 02:00 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus

Binayak Bandyopadhyay

· Jan 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

How do you turn train journeys in Paris and Mumbai into a book of poetry? Ask these poets

Jai Arjun Singh

· Dec 08, 2018 · 08:30 am

This anthology of poetry and short fiction attempts to unravel what dissent means in today’s times

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Dec 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Dec 01, 2018 · 07:00 am

Six poems by Meena Alexander (1951-2018) that explore memory, body and place

Meena Alexander

· Nov 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Watch Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz (1946-2018) recite her famous ‘Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle’

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· Nov 22, 2018 · 05:00 pm