‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Jun 10, 2018 · 06:30 pm

With the sea and the whale, it is present times that resonate in Ranjit Hoskote’s new book of poems

Anupama Raju

· May 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Tamil poet Subramania Bharati died in poverty, but his works sparked an unparalleled copyright war

AR Venkatachalapathy

· May 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Watch: Poetry meets video to break the shackles of a gendered, heteronormative society

Satvika Kundu

· Apr 17, 2018 · 08:00 pm

As temperatures soar, Kalidasa’s classic text ‘Ritusamharam’ provides verses for summer

Kalidasa

· Apr 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Halfway through National Poetry Month, here are some #NaPoWriMo poets from India worth following

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

Watch: This poem on video is an immersive experience of how homophobia feels in 2018

Scroll Staff

· Apr 12, 2018 · 05:00 pm

‘Sanskarnama’: Poetry that reflects the politics of our times (which we cannot flinch from)

Nabina Das

· Apr 09, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Why we must not forget Robert Frost when we read modern poetry. He made the everyday extraordinary

M Saad

· Apr 08, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Freezing the moment: A celebration of Haiku by poets from India

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

· Mar 24, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Mar 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) was above all a humanist poet, profound in his simplicity

Santosh Alex

· Mar 23, 2018 · 08:30 am

Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything

Annie Zaidi

· Mar 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Kaikeyi to Dasharath’: How Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s radical poetry reworked the narrative

Michael Madhusudan Dutt Ahona Panda

· Mar 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

Rupi Kaur’s bad poems shouldn’t worry us – the myopic view of the literary establishment should

Souradeep Roy

· Mar 17, 2018 · 07:30 am

If the Internet and social media have not destroyed poetry, then why all the criticism?

Rajashree Gandhi

· Mar 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A Marathi power loom worker’s poems, written to the sound of machines, have been winning awards

Sanket Jain

· Mar 12, 2018 · 11:30 am

The poet as architect: How poems are designed and constructed to convey the sense of space

Sumana Roy

· Mar 11, 2018 · 10:30 am