poetry
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‘A House of Words’: Indian writers honour Keki N Daruwalla’s enduring influence on literature
Mallik Thatipalli
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Audience view: Jerry Pinto’s live poetry performance encapsulates his life of words
Swati Rai
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‘The Dust Draws Its Face on the Wind’: A landscape of feelings in Avinash Shrestha’s poetry
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Keki N Daruwalla, pioneering Indian English-language poet, dies at 87
Scroll Staff
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Sunday book pick: The poems in WH Auden’s ‘Another Time’ flaunt his talents as a storyteller
Sayari Debnath
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‘When He so willed, He birthed the universe’: Guru Nanak’s hymns get a new English translation
Nirman Gill
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‘Clouds of haze / melt the mountains / with Buddha’s hum’: A new book of poemlets by Sukrita
Sukrita Paul Kumar
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‘Tomorrow, you watch, god will sprout from me’: Nepali poet Avinash Shrestha in translation
Avinash Shrestha Rohan Chhetri
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‘An act of dancing in chains’: Ranjit Hoskote on the ‘luxury of interpretation’ in translation
Tansy Troy
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‘Extinction is blood on my hands’: Vinita Agrawal’s poems about our disappearing natural wealth
Vinita Agrawal
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‘You’re a poet, don’t be silent’: Ranjit Hoskote translates ‘god of poetry’ Mir Taqi Mir from Urdu
Mir Taqi Mir Ranjit Hoskote
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Poetry picks: Six poems by Indian and international poets about their lives and realities
Najwan Darwish Kareem James Abu-Zeid David Herd Habib Tengour Will Harris Delaina Haslam Anitha Thampi AJ Thomas Mantra Mukim Sharmistha Mohanty
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A new book brings translations of Sarmad’s quatrains, which had enchanted even Prince Dara Shikoh
Sarmad Syeda Saiyidain Hameed Reyaz Ahmad
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‘What happened to the flowers?’: What absolute freedom looks like for publisher-poet Naveen Kishore
Naveen Kishore
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Songs of freedom: The idea of liberty is woven into the fabric of Indian poetry
Chitra Srikrishna
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‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes
Shibani Phukan
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‘Wild Women’: Anthology of Bhakti poems shows how women shaped language subconscious in India
Anamika
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Can a poem be adapted into a video game? Here’s what I learned from trying
Jon Stone, The Conversation
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‘He gives life to all gods’: Krishna and his wife Satyabhama’s story from Murty Classical Library
Nandi Timmana Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Velcheru Narayana Rao
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‘Pali was a friend, a companion’: Poet-lyricist Gulzar’s ode to his pet dog Pali on World Dog Day
Gulzar