poetry
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‘Home is the aura of my parents’: Comedian Mallika Dua in memory of late parents Vinod and Padmavati
Scroll Staff
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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
Scroll Staff
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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
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‘Open Zero’: Sophia Naz’s new book of poems glides across war and detention, migration and memory
Nabina Das
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The revelation of Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage changes our interpretation of her poetry
Jason Miller, The Conversation
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Watch: Music composer AR Rahman and poet Nirmika Singh collaborate on Hindi poem
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‘Witnesses of Remembrance’: Kunwar Narain’s poetry preserves the words and sentiments he cared for
Basudhara Roy
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A yearbook of Indian poetry in English has been published. How were the poems chosen?
Sukrita Paul Kumar Vinita Agrawal
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What this verse from Thiruvalluvar’s ‘Thirukkural’ says about the state’s relationship with farmers
S Anand
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How poetry can make less tangible subjects like climate change more real to readers
Christina Thatcher, The Conversation
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‘A Letter to Ma’: To writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen from her daughter (and translator) Nandana Dev Sen
Nandana Dev Sen
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‘I read about war to avoid this thing called peace’: Six poems from Sridala Swami’s new books
Sridala Swami
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’Twas The Night Before Christmas...made the modern Santa Claus and became a literary whodunit
Melissa Chim, The Conversation
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Adele, Taylor Swift: Why break-up songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantic poets
Anthony Howe, The Conversation
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Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully
Pavitra Mohan