poetry
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‘When will you show your documents?’: The poem for which Kannada poet Siraj Bisaralli was arrested
Dhanya Gopal
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Listen: ‘I Think I Hear The Dead Speak,’ a poem written for victims of mob violence in Delhi
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Watch writer Kausar Munir’s heartrending and heartwarming poem ‘Woh Kaghaz Kahan Se Laaoon’
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‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay
Vighnesh Hampapura
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How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
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‘Why are you silent?’ What the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (and Ageya) means in the times of CAA-NRC
Ian Woolford
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Michael Field, a 19th century poet with an elite readership, was created by a lesbian couple
Sarah Parker, The Conversation
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‘I gift you a rugged map carved from cracks between divorced nations’: Five poems from Kashmir
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘Main Hindustan Ki Beti Hu’: Watch this moving composition by a Lucknow student protestor
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‘Call now or panic later’: Watch poet Aranya Johar’s novel perspective on social anxiety
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‘A Hindu for everyone’: This Hindi poem attempts to explain what it means to be a Hindu
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Watch: ‘Hum Dekhenge’, sung in Kannada, marks CAA-NRC protest in Bengaluru
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Listen: ‘Ve Musalman The,’ a powerful composition by Hindi poet Devi Prasad Mishra
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‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem
Ali Sethi
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‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Watch: What is Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’ about? This translation helps understand
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The Art of Resistance: ‘Why should we not try just once?’ Six poems of protest
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CAA protest watch: When Hussain Haidry’s ‘Hindustani Musalmaan’ rang out at Mumbai’s Azaad Maidan
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‘Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai:’ Watch Rahat Indori recite his poem, now part of CAA protests
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These glimpses of poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s work shows his greatness cannot be grasped fully
Rita Kothari