How the ghazal traveled from 6th-century Arabia to Persia, India and the English-speaking world

Anisur Rahman

· Jan 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Not quite slam poetry: Watch Ramdas Athawale recite his poem in the Lok Sabha on the quota Bill

Scroll Staff

· Jan 09, 2019 · 02:00 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus

Binayak Bandyopadhyay

· Jan 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

How do you turn train journeys in Paris and Mumbai into a book of poetry? Ask these poets

Jai Arjun Singh

· Dec 08, 2018 · 08:30 am

This anthology of poetry and short fiction attempts to unravel what dissent means in today’s times

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Dec 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Dec 01, 2018 · 07:00 am

Six poems by Meena Alexander (1951-2018) that explore memory, body and place

Meena Alexander

· Nov 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Watch Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz (1946-2018) recite her famous ‘Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle’

Scroll Staff

· Nov 22, 2018 · 05:00 pm

How Wilfred Owen became a chronicler of the futility of war through his poems

Wim Van Mierlo, The Conversation

· Nov 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king

Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Cosmopolitician’: Eight poems by Mustansir Dalvi that merge dreams and reality

Mustansir Dalvi

· Nov 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What ‘jangnama’, the Punjabi tradition of historical poetry, tells us about World War I

Raman Singh Chhina

· Oct 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Sylvia Plath would have been 88 today. Did we make her up inside our heads?

Anupama Raju

· Oct 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Before India’s #MeToo, a poetry anthology replaced its editor after allegations of sexual misconduct

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 15, 2018 · 08:30 am

The flag-bearers of verse: How five independent presses publish poetry in India

Kanishka Gupta

· Oct 14, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Poetry has the power to inspire change like no other art form

Kate North, The Conversation

· Oct 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

Malini Nair

· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao

Rohini Kejriwal

· Oct 07, 2018 · 07:00 am