Poetry
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As temperatures soar, Kalidasa’s classic text ‘Ritusamharam’ provides verses for summer
Kalidasa
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Halfway through National Poetry Month, here are some #NaPoWriMo poets from India worth following
Rohini Kejriwal
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Watch: This poem on video is an immersive experience of how homophobia feels in 2018
Scroll Staff
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‘Sanskarnama’: Poetry that reflects the politics of our times (which we cannot flinch from)
Nabina Das
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Why we must not forget Robert Frost when we read modern poetry. He made the everyday extraordinary
M Saad
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Freezing the moment: A celebration of Haiku by poets from India
Rohini Kejriwal
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‘I Don’t Have Wings’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on the works of Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) was above all a humanist poet, profound in his simplicity
Santosh Alex
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Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything
Annie Zaidi
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‘Kaikeyi to Dasharath’: How Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s radical poetry reworked the narrative
Michael Madhusudan Dutt Ahona Panda
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Rupi Kaur’s bad poems shouldn’t worry us – the myopic view of the literary establishment should
Souradeep Roy
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If the Internet and social media have not destroyed poetry, then why all the criticism?
Rajashree Gandhi
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A Marathi power loom worker’s poems, written to the sound of machines, have been winning awards
Sanket Jain
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The poet as architect: How poems are designed and constructed to convey the sense of space
Sumana Roy
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‘I choose to be free’: On Women’s Day, a ‘brazen’ poem reminds women to live without fear or regret
Satvika Kundu
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Aditi Machado, Tishani Doshi, Sophia Naz: Poetry meets other passions in the works of these poets
Nabina Das
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Video: Had enough of bromances in films? Listen to this poem on the bonds of sisterhood
Satvika Kundu
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‘Loot Machi Hai’: Watch this man’s scathing spoken poem about corruption old and new in India
Scroll Staff
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This book gives the poets of Tibet who are fighting for freedom a voice to reach the world
Niyati Bhat