poetry
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Imtiaz Dharker has refused to be Britain’s Poet Laureate. ‘The poems won,’ she said. She is right
Sohini Basak
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Watch: Kubbra Sait, Kunal Kapoor recite powerful poem on how thalassaemia affects lives
Scroll Staff
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Beyond ‘Rebecca’: Daphne du Maurier’s recently discovered poems reveal a writer of great versatility
Laura Varnam, The Conversation
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This book of poetry weaves the intimate and the public, the private and the shared, into stories
Shikhandin
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‘The great leader’ appears in Varanasi in this poem about the city’s past and present
Ashwani Kumar
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‘A Kind of Freedom Song’: In life and mythology, women find a voice after violence in these poems
Aditi Rao
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#NaPoWriMo: 10 poets from India who are embracing (and excelling at) National Poetry Writing Month
Rohini Kejriwal
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‘Terrarium’: A debut poetry collection that is therapeutic, nuanced and bursting with wisdom
Niyati Bhat
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Mustansir Dalvi’s dexterous poetry seeks a promise of cosmopolitanism from the reader
Maithreyi Karnoor
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‘Faith is trapped in the teeth of fire’: Two poems by Gulzar on India today
Gulzar
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‘Out of Syllabus’: Three poems from Sumana Roy’s dazzling debut collection
Sumana Roy
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Akhil Katyal’s poetry observes, records, and churns present-day truths
Niyati Bhat
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Thousands of years before becoming a vegan hit, the jackfruit was an intrinsic part of Sangam poetry
Veena Muthuraman
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‘An assemblage of images’: How Delhi and its architecture influenced the poetry of Octavio Paz
Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
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How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published
Radhika Oberoi
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Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry
Anupama Raju
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This new ghazal by Javed Akhtar is a clarion call for writers to wield their pens in dark times
Javed Akhtar
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‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’
Urvashi Bahuguna