poetry
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How Binoy Majumdar re-wrote the grammar of Dalit poetry and politics, and was ostracised for it
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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‘Polytheists, monotheists, infidels tell me there is no country for writers’: Five poems on freedom
Ashwani Kumar
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‘What does it mean to be born in a graveyard?’: Three poems from Tishani Doshi’s new book of poetry
Tishani Doshi
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‘Books of an occupied land carry corpses of all ages’: Poems for Samir Mansour Bookshop in Gaza
Karan Kapoor Antara Rao Alolika Dutta Saima Afreen Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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A new anthology brings together poetry of dissent from all over India
Nabina Das Nirupama Dutt
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‘Because he did not stop for death’: Four poems for photographer Danish Siddiqui
Alolika Dutta Karan Kapoor Antara Rao Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative
Priya Satia
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Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition
Priya Satia
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Remembrance: Watch actor Surekha Sikri reciting Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat’
Scroll Staff
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‘Sing of Life’: Priya Sarukkai Chhabria reweaves Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’ for the reader on the go
Shikhandin
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‘In the disconnected land’: How young poets in Kashmir are responding to the changed reality
Safwat Zargar
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‘I’m trying to design a country that will go with my poetry’: Poems that speak on World Refugee Day
Nandita Haksar
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How Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’ got a new rendition in the hands of a modern poet
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
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‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha
Jairam Ramesh
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‘Shaheen Bagh and Mumbai Bagh, sister fields’: New poems for our times by Bina Sarkar Ellias
Bina Sarkar Ellias
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‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami
Joy Goswami
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What do allies write about when they write (poetry) about feminism?
Saikat Majumdar
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‘There’s nothing open about a window’: Five poems by Jerry Pinto from his new book
Jerry Pinto
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Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’
Hemang
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‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma
Salma