‘In the Light of Shiva’: HS Shivaprakash’s poetry from the last 50 years attests to his greatness

AJ Thomas

· Feb 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion

Amir Suhail Wani

· Feb 13, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Girl’: The vitality of multispecies life is evident in Ruth Padel’s latest book of poems

Tansy Troy

· Feb 08, 2025 · 06:30 pm

‘Lola in Belfast’: Pallavi Padma-Uday’s poems connect her authentic roots with the new world

Csilla Toldy

· Jan 31, 2025 · 01:30 am

‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood

Ipshita Mitra

· Jan 25, 2025 · 07:30 am

Banaras Lit Fest 2025 Book Awards announces longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation

Scroll Staff

· Jan 23, 2025 · 11:44 am

‘I dice one more aubergine’: When two friends conversed in verse during Covid-19 lockdowns

Marilyn Hacker Karthika Nair

· Jan 21, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘I am the Mighty, Ancient Himalaya / Carve me at your peril’: Six poems about rebooting the planet

Tansy Troy

· Jan 16, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘This is grief as exile’: Preti Taneja interrogates the language of terror and grief

Preti Taneja

· Jan 07, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘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

· Jan 02, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘I am filled with desires but have no experience in love’: Five end-of-year poems by Ashwani Kumar

Ashwani Kumar

· Dec 31, 2024 · 07:30 pm

‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets

Mirza Ghalib Anisur Rahman

· Dec 27, 2024 · 05:30 pm

227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets

Amir Suhail Wani

· Dec 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘What do I give you?’: Publisher-poet Naveen Kishore’s gift to readers during difficult times

Naveen Kishore

· Dec 25, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Our shadows drag us back’: Poems by 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner Ramesh Karthik Nayak

Ramesh Karthik Nayak

· Dec 24, 2024 · 05:30 pm

One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him

Sreekala Sivasankaran

· Dec 22, 2024 · 07:30 am

Hindi poetry: An excerpt from 2024 Sahitya Akademi winner Gagan Gill’s ‘Main Jab Tak Aayi Bahar’

Gagan Gill

· Dec 20, 2024 · 08:30 pm

‘To ride the river, to know desire’: Five poems from Jeet Thayil’s new book of poetry

Jeet Thayil

· Dec 16, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The police is you, the thief too’: A writer looks for Kabir in the songs of Kaluram Bamaniya

Anand

· Dec 13, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Their voices carry the liquid freshness of youth’: Bhaswati Ghosh’s poems about homes left behind

Bhaswati Ghosh

· Dec 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm