poetry
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‘A woman and fire are as ancient as civilisation’: Six Dalit-feminist poems by Poonam Tushamad
Poonam Tushamad
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Reflections on poetry and a ‘quiet friendship’ with the award winning poet Jayanta Mahapatra
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
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‘The hunger hidden’: Four poets and twelve poems to remember pride month
Curated by Kinshuk Gupta
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Pride Month: Twelve poems by four poets that reflect on queerness
Curated by Kinshuk Gupta
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‘My Pain’: Musician AR Rahman and poet Dana Dajani collaborate for episode of Firdaus Sessions
Scroll Staff
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‘Very old their sorrow’: Three political poems for our times by Adnan Kafeel Darwesh
Adnan Kafeel Darwesh
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‘We come to wait for the names of the fallen’: Five poems, political and personal, by Sabitha Satchi
Sabitha Satchi
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Does identity relate to nation? New books from Aanchal Malhotra and Jeet Thayil examine the idea
Vivek Tejuja
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‘Arms raised, a leafless tree prays for its death’: Five poems on loneliness and memories
Sonnet Mondal
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‘Bhagwan aur Khuda’: Poem narrated by actor Manoj Bajpayee hopes for a united and safe India
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Where’s that book of Urdu poetry when the occasion needs a sher? At last we have one
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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Four poems by scholar-activist GN Saibaba, written in jail, where he is serving life imprisonment
GN Saibaba
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‘Home is the aura of my parents’: Comedian Mallika Dua in memory of late parents Vinod and Padmavati
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Was TS Eliot more influenced by French poets than widely believed? A new monograph suggests as much
Sumit Chakrabarti
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2022 Jhalak Prize longlist: Twelve handpicked books across genres by writers of colour in Britain
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World Poetry Day: A new anthology of Indian poets writing in English is on its way
Jeet Thayil
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‘Clouds rushing in like the early death of someone you never knew’: Four poems on violent thoughts
Avinab Datta-Areng
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‘War tells lies about war: That war keeps you safe. Or you would be dead by now.’
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Watch: Musician Sarada Dangol and poet Ujjwala Maharjan’s rap performance at Kathmandu Triennale
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‘We are the angry men, loud and meaningless as screeching fighter jets in a war zone’
Abhay K