Adele, Taylor Swift: Why break-up songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantic poets

Anthony Howe, The Conversation

· Dec 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully

Pavitra Mohan

· Nov 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘An ascetic meditating – turned upside down – the baobab tree’: the Magic of Madagascar in haikus

Abhay K

· Nov 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

This anthology of verse by British authors of the Raj is a caustic commentary on colonial India

Graham Shaw

· Nov 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘There is a woman in me rising out of all the ones that aren’t’: Four poems by Karuna Ezara Parikh

Karuna Ezara Parikh

· Nov 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Rahim combined war with poetry

Pavitra Mohan

· Nov 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘It isn’t mine alone to mend’: Spoken word poet brings voices of refugees to Glasgow climate summit

Scroll Staff

· Nov 08, 2021 · 01:53 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: Namdeo’s search for the formless god

Pavitra Mohan

· Oct 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

K Satchidanandan’s poems in ‘Questions from the Dead’ confront the environmental crisis

Gopal Lahiri

· Oct 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Archana Venkatesan wins international translation award for her translation of 1102-verse Tamil poem

Nammāḻvār

· Oct 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘We grew heavier not with grief but numbers’: Three poems from Rohan Chhetri’s new book

Rohan Chhetri

· Sep 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How Binoy Majumdar re-wrote the grammar of Dalit poetry and politics, and was ostracised for it

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Sep 18, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Polytheists, monotheists, infidels tell me there is no country for writers’: Five poems on freedom

Ashwani Kumar

· Sep 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘What does it mean to be born in a graveyard?’: Three poems from Tishani Doshi’s new book of poetry

Tishani Doshi

· Sep 03, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘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

· Aug 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

A new anthology brings together poetry of dissent from all over India

Nabina Das Nirupama Dutt

· Aug 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Because he did not stop for death’: Four poems for photographer Danish Siddiqui

Alolika Dutta Karan Kapoor Antara Rao Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Jul 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative

Priya Satia

· Jul 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition

Priya Satia

· Jul 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Remembrance: Watch actor Surekha Sikri reciting Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat’

Scroll Staff

· Jul 16, 2021 · 01:41 pm