hindi poetry
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‘Perennial’ : This translated selection of poems provides a window to contemporary Hindi poetry
Smitha Sehgal
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The storm still gathers: Remembering Vaidyanath Mishra, aka Nagarjun, the people’s poet
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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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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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Mere Hissey Ki Shyaahi,’ by Ritu Gupta Garg
Ritu Gupta Garg
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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from 2024 Sahitya Akademi winner Gagan Gill’s ‘Main Jab Tak Aayi Bahar’
Gagan Gill
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Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Rangsaaj Ki Rasoi’, by Arun Kamal
Arun Kamal
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‘Treasurer of Piggy Banks’: The cosmic and the planetary in Vinod Kumar Shukla’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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‘Birth alone is a harsh prison’: Read Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori’s verses translated into English
Leeladhar Jagoori Matt Reeck
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‘We stretched our hands out to touch the light’: A new book of prose poems by Manav Kaul
Manav Kaul Nandini Kumar Nickerson
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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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‘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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‘I find the constraints of the original text liberating to work with’: Translator Rahul Soni
Sayari Debnath
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‘Witnesses of Remembrance’: Kunwar Narain’s poetry preserves the words and sentiments he cared for
Basudhara Roy
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‘Should I first read to them the news or the poems’: Five poems by Kunwar Narain
Kunwar Narain
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Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’
Mangalesh Dabral
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‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh
Kedarnath Singh
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‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC
Ian Woolford
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Watch: Here’s what prompted an Australia-based Hindi professor to recite Dhoomil’s poetry
Scroll Staff
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Yours, Amrita: Remembering poet and writer Amrita Pritam on her 100th birth anniversary
Kanupriya Dhingra
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‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal
Kumar Vikal