Poetry
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Tamil Bhakti movement: How the 8th-century poet Nammalwar composed over a thousand hymns to Vishnu
Raghavan Srinivasan
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‘Poetry is about truth, difference, and breaking form’: Debut poet Aranya Padil
Kunjana Parashar
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‘The trees grow at night / as a man’s life shortens in the dark’: Assamese poems of displacement
Jiban Narah Anindita Kar
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‘Today, we are diving into / The anatomy of emotions’: Poems on desire and divine destinations
Srijani Mitra
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‘The whole city / an open wound / bleeding / never clotting ’: Coming to terms with the nation-state
Saranya Subramanian
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‘Can God reside where hate reigns?’: Poetry as witness, elegy, and quiet rebellion
Satya Mohanty
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‘Of Least Concern’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s new book of poems is a lesson in attentiveness
Smitha Sehgal
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‘The child deep inside my soul / weeps for our old days’: Arabic haikus of memory, grief, beauty
Nujoom Al-Ghanem Ibrahim Fawzy
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‘Light weaves into light at last’: Gieve Patel’s translation of bhakti saint Vasto’s poetry
Vasto Gieve Patel
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‘Folie à Deux’: Jennifer Robertson’s poems comb through personal history with clinical finesse
Aditya Shiledar
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‘Eartha’: Poet Vinita Agrawal converses with all sentient beings on the planet
Tansy Troy
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Banaras Lit Fest 2026 Book Awards announces longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation
Scroll Staff
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‘Brown God’s Child’: Sadness and rebirth, darkness and light, come together in Smitha Sehgal’s poems
Nazir Wani
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‘Time is just a memory/ of slow recognitions/ step crossing through infinity’: Poems for a new year
Anu Majumdar
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‘Winter lingers over the sleeping sand dunes’: Five end-of-year poems by Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar
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‘What happens when memory fails in its sworn task to remember?’: Musings as another year ends
Naveen Kishore
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‘Scratching the Silence’: Prafull Shiledar’s poetic vision is a search for humane transformation
Kamalakar Bhat
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Radical intimacy: Wisdom from Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi, and other pre-modern women mystics
Alexandra Verini
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‘Dandkarunya’: Marathi poet Avinash Poinkar writes about extractive development on tribal land
Ravindra Nannavare
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‘Without you this is / A false spring’: A new book of poems on how love transforms the seasons
Nirmal Ghosh