Watch: A young British-Muslim Pakistani immigrant slays Islamophobia with her potent slam poetry

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· Jul 05, 2017 · 05:00 pm

July journeys: Five poems for ‘the pilgrim soul in you’

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jul 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

How does a poet turn Tintin and Snowy (and beetroot) into clever, searing verse?

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jul 01, 2017 · 05:30 am

Watch: This Dalit writer’s compelling poems addressed to Narendra Modi sharply capture the despair

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· Jun 29, 2017 · 10:00 am

Eight stylish South Asian poets in the diaspora you must read for their striking ideas

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Eight ‘Bhakti’ poems that show India had multiple and diverse paths to devotion

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

· Jun 18, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet

Baran Farooqi

· Jun 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 10, 2017 · 07:00 am

Five poems for a rain-drenched June

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

This book unpacks the enigma of Arun Kolatkar and the many passions of the ‘Bombay poets’

Anu Kumar

· May 31, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘A poem is a conversation I hope to have with a reader’: Annie Zaidi

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 28, 2017 · 07:30 am

Watch: Tony Walsh delivers a stirring poem at a packed vigil for Manchester victims

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· May 27, 2017 · 10:00 pm

A terrible beauty shines through this tea garden poet’s fierce verses on war, freedom, erotica

Nabina Das

· May 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm

How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?

Sumana Roy

· May 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Five poems of longing for the sizzling month of May

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

What makes novelist Anjum Hasan a writer of poems but not a poet?

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Video: Marital rape is as much a crime as harassment at the workplace, as a 16-year-old reminds us

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· Apr 26, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Why are Alys’s letters to her husband Faiz Ahmed Faiz consigned to elite private readings?

Farha Noor

· Apr 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

Are the internet and social media an opportunity or a distraction for poets?

Manik Sharma

· Apr 23, 2017 · 07:00 am

Watch: Why not call a vagina a vagina, asks a 16-year-old in her slam poetry

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· Apr 21, 2017 · 05:00 pm