Poetry
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‘When Time is a Magic Jar’: Poems of despair and decay, alongside hope and undying dreams of love
Neera Kashyap
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‘But freedom came before its time...’: An Independence Day poem by Mukul Kesavan
Mukul Kesavan
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‘The translator runs vagabond on a taut rope’: A new book of 21st-century Hindi poems in translation
Vishnu Khare Tanuj Solanki Uday Prakash Carol Blaizy D’souza Gagan Gill Vidya Bhandarkar Mahesh Verma Tuhin Bhowal Parwati Tirkey Dibyajyoti Sarma Nirmala Putul Nidhi Singh
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‘So That You Know’: In Mani Rao’s new book of poetry, formal precision meets playfulness and depth
Ankush Banerjee
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‘Rahim says, those charred by love blaze, again and again’: The metaphors in Rahim’s couplets
Chandan Sinha
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How poetry can help to fight polarisation and misinformation in the world today
Alex Hubbard, The Conversation
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‘In our house of the omnipresent / we are more than vaastu compliant’: Mani Rao’s new book of poems
Mani Rao
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Assamese poet Nilim Kumar chosen for 2025 Viswambhara Dr C Narayana Reddy National Literary Award
Scroll Staff
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These poems by Ifaam Bashir and Zainab Ummer Farook won the inaugural Osmosis Poetry Prize
Ifaam Bashir Zainab Ummer Farook
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‘At his feet I pay homage, cupping my hands in reverence’: The Buddha as man, animal, and god
Sarah Shaw
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‘The Missing Prayer’: Personal tragedies in poems evoke painful histories of the Indian subcontinent
Mariya Anum
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A new book studies how Indian women ‘Instapoets’ are forming new collective cultural identifications
Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
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‘Seek knowledge here’: A conversation between Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena
Maria Heim
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‘Volcano’: Eunice de Souza’s poems invite deeper reflections despite their seemingly light surfaces
Smitha Sehgal
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‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
Lopamudra Basu Feroza Jussawalla Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Soniah Kamal
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For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
Zai Whitaker
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‘Map of Memories’: Experimental poems resonate with the poet’s identity as migrant, scholar, thinker
Shyamasri Maji
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‘The day begins with endings’: A new book of poetry about topography, time, and shifting identities
Siddhartha Menon
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‘Frequently, heaven erupts’: A new book of poetry takes readers across 37 Indian cities
Siddharth Dasgupta Arun Kolatkar Nandini Sen Mehra Satya Dash Malovika Pawar Ashwani Kumar Jayant Parmar Riyaz Latif Gopal Lahiri
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‘The Last Time I Saw You’: A compelling portrait of an artist grappling with the loss of his muse
Yamini Krishnan