‘Perhaps I am not a poet at all’: Jayanta Mahapatra, who would have been 96 on this day

Sreekala Sivasankaran

· Oct 22, 2024 · 07:30 am

Keki Daruwalla (1937-2024): A sculptor of words with a keen ear for rhythm and metre

Sukrita Paul Kumar

· Sep 29, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Munawwar Rana (1952-2024): Remembering the Urdu poet with ‘Maa’ and other poems he wrote

Scroll Staff

· Jan 15, 2024 · 12:18 pm

A new novel imagines artist-poet Edward Lear’s little-known Indian sojourns

Anindyo Roy

· Dec 15, 2023 · 06:30 pm

Saleem Peeradina (1944-2023) was a poet who taught as well as a teacher who wrote poetry

Salil Tripathi

· Feb 16, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Failure is an opportunity. Failure is art. Failure is human’: Poet Raena Shirali

Mariyam Haider

· Feb 11, 2023 · 08:30 am

US Poet laureate Ada Limón explores ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’

Amy Cannon, The Conversation

· Oct 03, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Poet Keki Daruwalla’s new book of short fiction explores family ties with mysterious tales

Keki N Daruwalla

· May 05, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report

Scroll Staff

· Apr 23, 2022 · 11:13 am

‘All routes to death’: A personal essay of friendship with Agha Shahid Ali in the early 1980s in USA

Padmini Mongia

· Nov 27, 2021 · 08:30 am

How the Gujarati poet Narmadashankar Dave went from promiscuity to religiousness

Narmadashankar Dave Tulsi Vatsal Aban Mukherji

· Oct 01, 2021 · 08:30 am

What reading Kamla Bhasin taught a professor of English literature (and her students)

Antara Datta

· Sep 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

The new biography of Agha Shahid Ali is a love letter to the poet but not a critical view of a life

Niyati Bhat

· Jun 26, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Siddalingaiah (1954-2021): The Dalit poet who broke the rules and challenged the norms

S R Ramakrishna

· Jun 20, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Siddalingaiah (1954-2021): What the Dalit writer’s memoir reveals of his student days

Siddalingaiah

· Jun 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

This biography of Agha Shahid Ali reads his life and his poetry together to join the dots

Manan Kapoor

· Jun 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021): A poet who could not be compared with any of his contemporaries

K Satchidanandan

· Apr 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer

Sandip Roy

· Feb 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): All his life, he was essentially writing love poems

Sarabjeet Garcha

· Dec 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘A New World Symphony’: A sequence of poems by actor Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

· Nov 16, 2020 · 08:30 am