Poetry
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‘Grass lives next to grass’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Jnanpith winner Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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‘Changing, Unchanging’: Anju Makhija’s poetry is a quest for the restful
Neera Kashyap
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‘You don’t have to look far to understand exile’: These poems are a call to our common humanity
Pramila Venkateswaran
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‘The Beloved is my eternal sun’: A new translation of Rumi’s poetry and parables by Farrukh Dhondy
Rumi Farrukh Dhondy
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‘The little pricks and the apocalypse’: A poem on losing a father, friend, and pillar of strength
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘The earth / gashed open / flaming red and raw’: Poems about life in Sri Lanka between war and peace
Maithree Wickramasinghe
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‘I’ll Have It Here’: Jeet Thayil blends the instinctive and incomprehensible in his new poems
Saurabh Sharma
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‘In the Light of Shiva’: HS Shivaprakash’s poetry from the last 50 years attests to his greatness
AJ Thomas
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Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion
Amir Suhail Wani
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‘Girl’: The vitality of multispecies life is evident in Ruth Padel’s latest book of poems
Tansy Troy
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‘Lola in Belfast’: Pallavi Padma-Uday’s poems connect her authentic roots with the new world
Csilla Toldy
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‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood
Ipshita Mitra
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Banaras Lit Fest 2025 Book Awards announces longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation
Scroll Staff
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‘I dice one more aubergine’: When two friends conversed in verse during Covid-19 lockdowns
Marilyn Hacker Karthika Nair
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‘I am the Mighty, Ancient Himalaya / Carve me at your peril’: Six poems about rebooting the planet
Tansy Troy
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‘This is grief as exile’: Preti Taneja interrogates the language of terror and grief
Preti Taneja
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‘We’ll survive somehow’: Five poems by Indian poets to ring in the new year
Eunice de Souza Mamang Dai Ashok Vajpeyi Rahul Soni Muktabai Jerry Pinto Neela Bhagwat Faiz Ahmed Faiz Keki N Daruwalla
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‘I am filled with desires but have no experience in love’: Five end-of-year poems by Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar
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‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets
Mirza Ghalib Anisur Rahman
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227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets
Amir Suhail Wani