Poetry
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What happened when an Indian poet’s fellowship in Wales coincided with the advent of the pandemic
Shalim Hussain
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Poet-lyricist Rahat Indori (1950-2020): Watch some of his finest songs and his most famous poem
Scroll Staff
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‘There is no god in that temple, said the hermit’: Rabindranath Tagore wrote this poem in 1900
Rabindranath Tagore
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‘We are going to meet soon’: Read these post-modern love poems in the bhakti tradition
Srivalli
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Watch: Child artiste recites heartbreaking poem ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’
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The paradox of poetry in the pandemic: High online engagement, but are the books selling?
Uttaran Das Gupta
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Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Eight stylish South Asian poets in the diaspora you must read for their striking ideas
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This anthology of queer poetry from South Asia inclusively builds bridges across diversity
Manjari Sahay
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First person: How a poetry-only publishing house is dealing with the pandemic (and how it grew)
Hemant Divate
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Kalidasa was an early practitioner of ecopoetry, a genre that the world is waking up to now
Abhay K
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‘Dogle’: Poet Hussain Haidry’s new work is for people who ‘refuse to pick a side’
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‘Love transformed me from a swaggering slave: New translations of Rumi’s poetry by Farrukh Dhondy
Rumi
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Why sadness and reading Sylvia Plath go hand in hand for some millennials
Yamini Krishnan
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‘Hand on the placard, fist around the stone’: Five poems by Ranjit Hoskote viewing a ‘nation’s fate’
Ranjit Hoskote
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Celebrating Kishwar Naheed and eight decades of poetry and rebellion
Naazir Mahmood, Dawn.com
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‘Ab Tum Hi Kaho Kya Karna Hai’: One of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s famous last poems is now a song
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‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu
Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com
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‘For a friend who is in prison’: A writer’s poem for Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal
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‘It’s time to be free’: ‘Udaan’ actor Rajat Barmecha narrates poem on positivity
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