Poetry
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‘To ride the river, to know desire’: Five poems from Jeet Thayil’s new book of poetry
Jeet Thayil
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‘The police is you, the thief too’: A writer looks for Kabir in the songs of Kaluram Bamaniya
Anand
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‘Their voices carry the liquid freshness of youth’: Bhaswati Ghosh’s poems about homes left behind
Bhaswati Ghosh
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‘I mistake cantaloupe for a human skull’: The tales of horror behind Brian Turner’s war poetry
Sarabjeet Garcha
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‘Dear Adam, this night is for us’: Five poems from Pallavi Padma-Uday’s new book of poetry
Pallavi Padma-Uday
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Some people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter
Andrew Dean, The Conversation
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‘An inward demand to utter things’: How Prasanta Chakravarty wrote his new book of poetry
Prasanta Chakravarty
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How mystic poets Baba Farid, Namdeo, Kabir, and Rahim fostered secular sentiments in their poetry
Namit Arora
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‘A gift to us’: Amit Chaudhuri on the achievements of Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’ as art-songs
Amit Chaudhuri
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Translated Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Khamoshi Ka Arth Parajay Nahin Hota’
Amitabh Chakraborty
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‘Darkness has spread, prudence is lost’: Read Urdu poet Zehra Nigah’s poems in translation
Zehra Nigah Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘We are used to snacking on blood pudding for medallions’: Four poems by Madhu Raghavendra
Madhu Raghavendra
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Poetry: Five different translations of Shervin Hajipour’s Persian protest song ‘Baraye’
Vighnesh Hampapura Ayesha Latif Ayesha Irani Nachiket Joshi Amna Ali Khan Balakrishnan Raghavan Ammara Ahmad Alexander McKinley Rohee Dholakia
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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Rangsaaj Ki Rasoi’, by Arun Kamal
Arun Kamal
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Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology
Ranjit Hoskote
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‘Your touch and the sun are indistinguishable’: Four poems from Akhil Katyal’s new book of poetry
Akhil Katyal
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Poems from prison by GN Saibaba (1967-2024): ‘I realised that jail is not death / it is my rebirth’
GN Saibaba
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‘Love is self-generating / Nimble and uninhibited’: Read three poems by writer Iffat Nawaz
Iffat Nawaz
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Writer R Raj Rao on why biographies of living poets are crucial to understanding their work
R Raj Rao
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‘A House of Words’: Indian writers honour Keki N Daruwalla’s enduring influence on literature
Mallik Thatipalli