Poetry
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‘Seeking the Infinite’: Devotion and longing in Madhu Raghavendra’s poems seeking the divine
Gitanjali Roy
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‘Perennial’ : This translated selection of poems provides a window to contemporary Hindi poetry
Smitha Sehgal
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‘She balled the rice in my plate / I gripped the rosary’: These poems are a gastronomical journey
Nithya Mariam John
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‘The Art of Unboxing’: Neera Kashyap’s poems strip the body, mind, and soul to their core essentials
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
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A hundred years on, TS Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’ is a poem for our populist moment
Luke Johnson, The Conversation
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Born on this day: Urdu poet Josh Malihabadi (1898-1982) was a fiery voice of freedom
Hilal Fareed
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‘Campaign in poetry, govern in prose’: Why transformative governance needs poetic vision
Nandini Sen Mehra
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‘The Soundtrack of My Life – Side B’: Poet Srividya Sivakumar defies traditions of women’s chastity
Neera Kashyap
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For children: A rainbow-winged elephant carries a weaver towards a destiny spun from magic
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Fish Water Blues: Mustansir Dalvi’s poem about Mumbai’s jazz age
Mustansir Dalvi
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‘Designed to be devoid of purpose’: Poems that aver that we cannot fully possess our lives
CP Surendran
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First-person account: An evening in Mir and Ghalib’s Delhi with Sohail Hashmi and Saif Mahmood
Swati Rai
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‘Discard your ego-self. Begin the journey’: Read 12th-century Persian poet Attar in English
Attar Sholeh Wolpé
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‘Who are these people / who keep coming / to kill peace?’: Poems of hunger, war in an age of excess
Sonnet Mondal
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‘Earth Song’: Poet Kanji Patel bridges an oppressive world and a free one
Kabir Deb
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‘How far would I have gone to get away?’: Mukul Kesavan remembers the 1984 violence against Sikhs
Mukul Kesavan
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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