Christmas conjunction of planets: Ten anthems for the solar system

Abhay K

· Dec 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Weekend Quiz: Which 18th-century Kerala art form accompanies the recitation of satirical verse?

The Heritage Lab

· Dec 19, 2020 · 03:30 pm

‘This thing is real’: Poet and actor Sainee Raj explains what living with anxiety is like

Scroll Staff

· Dec 18, 2020 · 11:27 am

Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): ‘It’s my heart, not my feet, that’s traversing this vexed world’

Mangalesh Dabral

· Dec 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Watch: Journalist Salil Tripathi’s poem for his mother about the Babri demolition, Gujarat, 1947

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2020 · 10:44 am

‘You say nothing, you speak of no one, we hear each other breathe’: Eight poems by Anupama Raju

Anupama Raju

· Nov 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic

Kaushik Barua

· Nov 28, 2020 · 11:30 am

‘How many more days this way, democracy?’: Five poems of lamentation and love from Assam

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This new anthology of love poems from India sweeps through histories, geographies and societies

Abhay K

· Nov 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In Shillong, love (and life and the universe) in the time of the coronavirus

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

· Oct 05, 2020 · 08:33 am

‘We must risk delight’: Poetry may not cure us of the coronavirus, but it will heal us

Manan Kapoor

· Oct 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Listen: On poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s birth anniversary, actor Manoj Bajpayee recites his poem

Scroll Staff

· Sep 23, 2020 · 05:53 pm

Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems

Hoshang Merchant

· Sep 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Breathing. One does it through masks these days. Unless someone kneels on one’s neck’

Dilip M Menon

· Aug 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘How long does it take a hand of my country to reach a hungry mouth?’ Six poems by Kedarnath Singh

Kedarnath Singh

· Aug 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What happened when an Indian poet’s fellowship in Wales coincided with the advent of the pandemic

Shalim Hussain

· Aug 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

Poet-lyricist Rahat Indori (1950-2020): Watch some of his finest songs and his most famous poem

Scroll Staff

· Aug 11, 2020 · 08:58 pm

‘There is no god in that temple, said the hermit’: Rabindranath Tagore wrote this poem in 1900

Rabindranath Tagore

· Aug 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘We are going to meet soon’: Read these post-modern love poems in the bhakti tradition

Srivalli

· Aug 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Child artiste recites heartbreaking poem ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’

Scroll Staff

· Aug 02, 2020 · 10:53 am