Poetry
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‘The skin of this love poem is grafted / on other poems’: A mixed tape of memory and defiance
Srividya Sivakumar
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‘No child of the Baloch has ever learned pity’: Classic Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif in translation
Shah Abdul Latif Christopher Shackle
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‘Is your dress smeared with the colour of olives?’: What Soumitra Chatterjee’s poem says about wars
Prasanta Chakravarty
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‘I slough off my body and wander / into faithless verses’: Memory and nature meet in these poems
Smitha Sehgal
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‘The poet leads me / along the zigzag trail of language’: In these poems, silence is thoughtful
Prafull Shiledar Santosh Bhoomkar Dilip Chavan Vishnu Khare Maya Pandit
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‘They Gather Around Me, the Animals’: Kunjana Parashar’s poetry unites the domestic and the wild
Srijani Mitra
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The storm still gathers: Remembering Vaidyanath Mishra, aka Nagarjun, the people’s poet
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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‘I found it’s even okay / not to have questions’: A new world within the folds of the old
Arundhathi Subramaniam
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‘What this minute needs is a deep breath’: Poems of restless freedom and urgent imperative of dreams
Basudhara Roy
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‘The Ghazal Eros’: New ways of thinking about history, poetics, and gendered content of ghazals
Asiya Zahoor
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‘To be out again inside the world’: These poems mirror slices of a life spent in the solace of art
Amlanjyoti Goswami
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‘This Could Be a Love Poem for You’: Poems that acknowledge the transient and grapple with mortality
John Thieme
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‘I am stone, barely warmed by the fire’: These poems merge inner and outer worlds, ephemeral moments
Neera Kashyap
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‘Then you show your little light’: Poems from a new book of poetry for young readers
Keki N Daruwalla Walter de La Mare Arundhathi Subramaniam Jane Taylor Rudyard Kipling
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‘Untamed grief often turns feral, runs wild’: Poems that reimagine histories and feminine agency
Jennifer Robertson
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‘The children are dying / Is there anything else worth knowing?’: Poems from a book by new poets
Anjani Raj Archana Nair Lara C Caldwell Philip John Rahul Krishnan Rakshita Hiremath Tasneem Khan Ullas Marar
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‘Wayward Verses’: Sanjiv Saraf’s anthology brings Urdu poetry beyond unrequited love
Shafey Kidwai
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‘Avidya’: Vidyan Ravinthiran’s poems are a compelling chronicler of Sri Lanka’s political history
Smitha Sehgal
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‘Our Alli has never needed a man’: Poems on the griefs inflicted on women in the Mahabharata
K Srilata
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‘Instructions on Surviving Genocide’: A poem by Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi