Poetry
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Christmas in India: Today’s saffron mobs should read this Kipling poem from 1886
Ipsita Chakravarty
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How do we explain the fact that militant Jihadists write poetry?
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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‘At 64 I’m beginning to wonder whether I have any more poems left in me’: Manohar Shetty
Rohini Kejriwal
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Five poems to celebrate December with dance and music
Rohini Kejriwal
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‘Poetry should be listed under fiction’: Watch Jeet Thayil on ‘The Book of Chocolate Saints’
Scroll Staff
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Five poets join a chapbook movement to put more poetry in the hands of people
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Watch: Seven keys on how (not) to run a country. No prizes for guessing the inspiration
Scroll Staff
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‘Being a woman on Tinder...’: Watch this poet attack beauty norms in the age of online dating
Scroll Staff
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‘Poetry has always been a compulsion through my life’: Bina Sarkar Ellias
Rohini Kejriwal
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Goodbye to a citizen poet: Kunwar Narain’s immaculate poems capture the thoughts of an era
Asad Zaidi
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These translations of poems by Kunwar Narain (1927-2017) show why he defied slotting into any genre
Kunwar Narain
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Five poems (or five ways) to go to the sea in November
Rohini Kejriwal
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Delhi Queer Pride: Ten short poems by a city-based queer poet to mark a decade of pride
Akhil Katyal
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Up, down, up: CP Surendran’s collected poems let readers trace the progress of a poet
Mani Rao
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A young Indian singer is turning to Hindi literature’s most eminent poets for lyrics
Joanna Lobo
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Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary: These verses show us that Urdu poets revered the founder of Sikhism
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Three poems of longing, despair, and hope from Tibet that tell the inner stories of its people
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‘When images and cadences come the right way, it’s part relief, part celebration’: Ranjit Hoskote
Rohini Kejriwal
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Is Keats’s famous ode, ‘To Autumn’, actually a warning about mass surveillance and social sharing?
Richard Marggraf-Turley, The Conversation
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How an Indian diplomat created an anthology of poetry on the world’s capitals
Abhay K