Poetry
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‘Wild Women’: Anthology of Bhakti poems shows how women shaped language subconscious in India
Anamika
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Can a poem be adapted into a video game? Here’s what I learned from trying
Jon Stone, The Conversation
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‘He gives life to all gods’: Krishna and his wife Satyabhama’s story from Murty Classical Library
Nandi Timmana Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Velcheru Narayana Rao
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‘Pali was a friend, a companion’: Poet-lyricist Gulzar’s ode to his pet dog Pali on World Dog Day
Gulzar
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‘One drop created us all ’: How Kabir sought inclusivity and oneness through his poetry
Shabnam Virmani
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‘Treasurer of Piggy Banks’: The cosmic and the planetary in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘I pray because I do not know what else to do’: Writer Jerry Pinto’s poem for Palestine
Jerry Pinto
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‘Sweet Shop’: Amit Chaudhuri (re)opens intimate, everyday spaces for English poetry from India
Sonal Dugar
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‘No poem or story can exist without its spine of the truths of the world’: Poet Rochelle Potkar
Jayanth Kodkani
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‘Gurram Jashuva showed that stigmatised people are worthy of poetry’: Translator Chinnaiah Jangam
Saurabh Sharma
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‘Birth alone is a harsh prison’: Read Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori’s verses translated into English
Leeladhar Jagoori Matt Reeck
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How men depict women’s attire such as the aanchal, the angiya, or the dupatta in Urdu poetry
Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘Mountains too are equal to men’: In these poems, the personal has a ripple effect on the world
Rochelle Potkar
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
G Akila R Suresh Babu Kanjini Devi Lakshmi Iyer Ravi Kiran
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‘If tomorrow comes, I will be the ash-heap of today’: Poems of enquiry into self and personhood
Atreyee Majumder
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‘...Echoing around, etched in the edifice’: This artist’s poetry is inspired by her paintings
Nandita Chaudhuri
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
Charles Hallisey
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‘We can remake this world’: This book of poems travels through places where people rise in protest
Hamraaz
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Lord Byron’s letters reveal the real queer love and loss that inspired his poetry
Sam Hirst, The Conversation
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‘My toes pirouette on the waves’: A new book of poems blurs the boundaries of place and time
Moumita Alam