Poetry
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How Wilfred Owen became a chronicler of the futility of war through his poems
Wim Van Mierlo, The Conversation
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Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king
Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Cosmopolitician’: Eight poems by Mustansir Dalvi that merge dreams and reality
Mustansir Dalvi
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What ‘jangnama’, the Punjabi tradition of historical poetry, tells us about World War I
Raman Singh Chhina
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
Nikhil Govind
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Sylvia Plath would have been 88 today. Did we make her up inside our heads?
Anupama Raju
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Before India’s #MeToo, a poetry anthology replaced its editor after allegations of sexual misconduct
Urvashi Bahuguna
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The flag-bearers of verse: How five independent presses publish poetry in India
Kanishka Gupta
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Poetry has the power to inspire change like no other art form
Kate North, The Conversation
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Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics
Malini Nair
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‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao
Rohini Kejriwal
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Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday
Anand V Taneja
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This poetry anthology reveals (again) why India must reclaim its own literary tradition of desire
Sayali Palekar
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Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Watch: ‘Instapoet’ Rupi Kaur talks to actor Emma Watson about poetry, social media and feminism
Scroll Staff
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He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?
Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘Poets are killed. They die. Their words don’t’: An art installation spotlights the power of poetry
Salil Tripathi
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What KG Subramanyan’s poetry says about his art (and what his art says about his poetry)
R Siva Kumar
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Why the US government maintained records on Rabindranath Tagore – and what they say
Tisha Mondal Judy Luis-Watson
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As he turns 69, Chinese poet Bei Dao remains the tranquil bard of protest, even in exile
Manan Kapoor