A young Indian singer is turning to Hindi literature’s most eminent poets for lyrics

Joanna Lobo

· Nov 08, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary: These verses show us that Urdu poets revered the founder of Sikhism

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Nov 04, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Three poems of longing, despair, and hope from Tibet that tell the inner stories of its people

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· Nov 01, 2017 · 05:30 pm

‘When images and cadences come the right way, it’s part relief, part celebration’: Ranjit Hoskote

Rohini Kejriwal

· Oct 29, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Is Keats’s famous ode, ‘To Autumn’, actually a warning about mass surveillance and social sharing?

Richard Marggraf-Turley, The Conversation

· Oct 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

How an Indian diplomat created an anthology of poetry on the world’s capitals

Abhay K

· Oct 22, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Why birdwatching and writing poetry are strikingly similar for this poet

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 21, 2017 · 07:00 am

How Rupi Kaur introduces feminism through accessible verse

Ashwini Tambe

· Oct 19, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Dear Ekta Kapoor’: A message for the makers of regressive TV soaps from a young poet

Shibika Suresh

· Oct 15, 2017 · 10:00 am

What can a poet have to say about female-identified and the feminised body in cinema? A lot

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 14, 2017 · 05:30 pm

We couldn’t wait for Rupi Kaur’s second book of instapoems. Was it really worth the wait?

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘Malgudi’: A poem to remember R K Narayan, creator of India’s most loveable town

Gabriel Rosenstock

· Oct 11, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Five poems by Perumal Murugan from his days in exile

Perumal Murugan

· Oct 09, 2017 · 08:30 am

In October (and autumn), six poems about age

Rohini Kejriwal

· Oct 08, 2017 · 08:30 am

Watch: Punjabi-Canadian writer Rupi Kaur says her poems are not just for South Asian immigrant women

Scroll Staff

· Oct 01, 2017 · 10:00 am

‘Poets are literary photographers, historians, witnesses. They are documenting moments.’

Rohini Kejriwal

· Oct 01, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘It is our right to exercise our pleasure’: A performance poet reads her verses on women’s sexuality

Scroll Staff

· Sep 28, 2017 · 05:00 pm

‘They’ll never silence us all’: Watch a young poet speak (and sing) for the right to dissent

Scroll Staff

· Sep 20, 2017 · 05:00 pm

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

Rana Safvi

· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Of course I feel exposed. A new book means drawing attention to yourself’: Poet Tishani Doshi

Rohini Kejriwal

· Sep 09, 2017 · 05:30 pm