Poetry
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What a poet learned from Mary Oliver (1935-2019), who was unabashedly in love with the world
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women
Scroll Staff
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‘Terrarium’: Five poems that engage with the complexities of health with vivid originality
Urvashi Bahuguna
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A collection of Vijay Nambisan’s poems allows us the opportunity to reframe his legacy
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave readers quietude, rich simplicity and narratives of nature
Apala Bhowmick
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How the ghazal traveled from 6th-century Arabia to Persia, India and the English-speaking world
Anisur Rahman
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Not quite slam poetry: Watch Ramdas Athawale recite his poem in the Lok Sabha on the quota Bill
Scroll Staff
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A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus
Binayak Bandyopadhyay
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How do you turn train journeys in Paris and Mumbai into a book of poetry? Ask these poets
Jai Arjun Singh
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This anthology of poetry and short fiction attempts to unravel what dissent means in today’s times
Suneetha Balakrishnan
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Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Six poems by Meena Alexander (1951-2018) that explore memory, body and place
Meena Alexander
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Watch Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz (1946-2018) recite her famous ‘Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle’
Scroll Staff
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How Wilfred Owen became a chronicler of the futility of war through his poems
Wim Van Mierlo, The Conversation
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Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king
Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Cosmopolitician’: Eight poems by Mustansir Dalvi that merge dreams and reality
Mustansir Dalvi
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What ‘jangnama’, the Punjabi tradition of historical poetry, tells us about World War I
Raman Singh Chhina
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
Nikhil Govind
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Sylvia Plath would have been 88 today. Did we make her up inside our heads?
Anupama Raju