Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet

Baran Farooqi

· Jun 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘I have written standing up in buses, on the fourth seat of a Mumbai local’: Jerry Pinto

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 10, 2017 · 07:00 am

Five poems for a rain-drenched June

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

This book unpacks the enigma of Arun Kolatkar and the many passions of the ‘Bombay poets’

Anu Kumar

· May 31, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘A poem is a conversation I hope to have with a reader’: Annie Zaidi

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 28, 2017 · 07:30 am

Watch: Tony Walsh delivers a stirring poem at a packed vigil for Manchester victims

Scroll Staff

· May 27, 2017 · 10:00 pm

A terrible beauty shines through this tea garden poet’s fierce verses on war, freedom, erotica

Nabina Das

· May 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm

How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?

Sumana Roy

· May 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Five poems of longing for the sizzling month of May

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

What makes novelist Anjum Hasan a writer of poems but not a poet?

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Video: Marital rape is as much a crime as harassment at the workplace, as a 16-year-old reminds us

Scroll Staff

· Apr 26, 2017 · 08:00 pm

Why are Alys’s letters to her husband Faiz Ahmed Faiz consigned to elite private readings?

Farha Noor

· Apr 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

Are the internet and social media an opportunity or a distraction for poets?

Manik Sharma

· Apr 23, 2017 · 07:00 am

Watch: Why not call a vagina a vagina, asks a 16-year-old in her slam poetry

Scroll Staff

· Apr 21, 2017 · 05:00 pm

India’s first poetry biennale shows that such events need to be held more often

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Apr 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘I like the process of writing poetry to be play rather than work’: Arundhathi Subramaniam

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 16, 2017 · 07:00 am

India’s new poetry is suddenly both political (is there a choice?) and personal

Nabina Das

· Apr 09, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘Poetry is a place of truth. Not factual truth, but truth of expression and emotion.’

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 08, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Spoken-word poets and stand-up comedians have a powerful message on suicide

Scroll Staff

· Apr 08, 2017 · 10:00 am

Hope and disillusionment. Or, reading Derek Walcott’s poetry at 18

Ahona Panda

· Apr 02, 2017 · 03:30 pm