poetry
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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
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‘What do I give you?’: Publisher-poet Naveen Kishore’s gift to readers during difficult times
Naveen Kishore
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‘Our shadows drag us back’: Poems by 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner Ramesh Karthik Nayak
Ramesh Karthik Nayak
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One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him
Sreekala Sivasankaran
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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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‘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