Poetry
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‘Kushiara and Other Poems’: Less is more in Rimi Nath’s poetry of quiet lyricism and wistfulness
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
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‘Her loveliness will thrill you’: Biharilal’s Hindi verses from the Murty Classical Library
Biharilal Rupert Snell
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‘Tired of living and angry with death’: Mir Taqi Mir’s Urdu verses from the Murty Classical Library
Mir Taqi Mir Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
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Dalit poet Kalyani Thakur Charal’s poetry is her powerful call for affirmative action
Niyati Bhat
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‘I’ve sacrificed all to that face of yours’: Surdas’s Hindi poetry from the Murty Classical Library
Surdas John Stratton Hawley
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‘Wake up, and do not snore’: Mystic poet Sufi Bullhe Shah’s verses from the Murty Classical Library
Bullhe Shah Christopher Shackle
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‘I am a one-man cultural army’: Telugu poet Gaddar on his lifelong class and caste activism
Gaddar Vasanth Kannabiran
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‘How to break the wall of lies?’: Guru Nanak’s verses from the Murty Classical Library of India
Guru Nanak Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
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Gaddar (1949-2023): Remembering the Telangana folk singer and poet through some of his performances
Scroll Staff
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‘Salt & Pepper: Selected Poems’: Sukrita holds dialogues with silence through 40 years of poetry
Basudhara Roy
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This book tells the story of India’s first female physician Anandibai Joshee’s life – in verse
Shikha Malaviya
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra reimagines history through voices from the past in his new book of poetry
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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‘Count Every Breath’: A poetry anthology about climate change offers possibilities for the future
Somudranil Sarkar
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Poetry on campus: Verses by two poets about the sights around their universities
Nikita Parik Namrata Pathak
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Tourist information for Shillong / शिलौंग के लिए पर्यटकीय सूचना
Tarun Bhartiya
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‘I find the constraints of the original text liberating to work with’: Translator Rahul Soni
Sayari Debnath
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‘Icelight’: The future is hauntingly, haltingly present in Ranjit Hoskote’s new book of poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘Tomorrow there won’t be any classes’: Activist Varavara Rao’s poems get an English translation
Varavara Rao N Venugopal Rohith
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‘A walking man dies only when asleep’: Odia poet Ratnamala Swain has been translated into English
Ratnamala Swain Purabi Das Durga Prasad Panda
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Nilim Kumar’s poetry collection ‘I’m Your Poet’ strains beyond normative habits of the mind
Kamalakar Bhat