Poetry
-

‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published
Radhika Oberoi
-

Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
-

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry
Anupama Raju
-

This new ghazal by Javed Akhtar is a clarion call for writers to wield their pens in dark times
Javed Akhtar
-

‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’
Urvashi Bahuguna
-

How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice
Nachiket Joshi
-

‘In the days of war, the sun does not rise, it is always night’: Two poems on what war brings us
Zeeshan Sahil Balraj Komal
-

‘Imagine a world where tanks can be libraries’ (as John Lennon might have): Two poems by Nabina Das
Nabina Das
-

‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
Rakhshanda Jalil
-

‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal
Kumar Vikal
-

‘How were we done for in this war?’: Three poems by women poets from Sri Lanka ask the same question
Sivaramani Paamathi Anar
-

War and death: Two poems by WB Yeats and Rudyard Kipling that remind us of the futility
WB Yeats Rudyard Kipling
-

Have English translations obscured the music and wordplay of the Bible for the sake of meaning?
Robert Alter, Aeon
-

‘Why did we fight at all? asked the Pandavas’: Three poems mourning war by K Satchidanandan
K Satchidanandan
-

Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats
Rifat Munim
-

A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century
Saudamini Deo Philippe Charlier
-

‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’: A soldier-poet’s cry against the cruelties of war
Wilfred Owen
-

‘Words from the Depth of Truth’: Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on war and destruction
Rabindranath Tagore
-

Poetry for peace: ‘Delay The War, It Is Better,’ wrote Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi
-

Politics, history and memory merge in these poems on Kashmir (and beyond)
Akhil Katyal