Watch: Writer Aatish Taseer reads Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’ in lockdown

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· Apr 05, 2020 · 09:50 am

How a 13th century Persian poem reminds us that the coronavirus crisis calls for a global response

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, The Conversation

· Mar 31, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America

Jason Miller, The Conversation

· Mar 30, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Watch: Actor and musician Riz Ahmed’s new short film ‘The Long Goodbye’ explores racism in the UK

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· Mar 15, 2020 · 12:50 pm

Cats: Ghazal writers Mir and Ghalib composed these poems about the animal that rules social media

Mir Taqi Mir Mirza Ghalib Prashant Keshavmurthy

· Mar 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘When will you show your documents?’: The poem for which Kannada poet Siraj Bisaralli was arrested

Dhanya Gopal

· Mar 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Listen: ‘I Think I Hear The Dead Speak,’ a poem written for victims of mob violence in Delhi

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· Feb 28, 2020 · 11:08 am

Watch writer Kausar Munir’s heartrending and heartwarming poem ‘Woh Kaghaz Kahan Se Laaoon’

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· Feb 28, 2020 · 09:18 am

‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Feb 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?

Ali Khan Mahmudabad

· Feb 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC

Ian Woolford

· Feb 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

Michael Field, a 19th century poet with an elite readership, was created by a lesbian couple

Sarah Parker, The Conversation

· Feb 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘I gift you a rugged map carved from cracks between divorced nations’: Five poems from Kashmir

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Main Hindustan Ki Beti Hu’: Watch this moving composition by a Lucknow student protestor

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· Jan 21, 2020 · 03:33 pm

‘Call now or panic later’: Watch poet Aranya Johar’s novel perspective on social anxiety

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· Jan 18, 2020 · 10:48 am

‘A Hindu for everyone’: This Hindi poem attempts to explain what it means to be a Hindu

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· Jan 11, 2020 · 11:24 am

Watch: ‘Hum Dekhenge’, sung in Kannada, marks CAA-NRC protest in Bengaluru

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· Jan 10, 2020 · 01:37 pm

Listen: ‘Ve Musalman The,’ a powerful composition by Hindi poet Devi Prasad Mishra

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· Jan 09, 2020 · 08:42 am

‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem

Ali Sethi

· Jan 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

· Jan 05, 2020 · 07:30 am