Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday

Anand V Taneja

· Oct 06, 2018 · 12:30 pm

This poetry anthology reveals (again) why India must reclaim its own literary tradition of desire

Sayali Palekar

· Sep 30, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Watch: ‘Instapoet’ Rupi Kaur talks to actor Emma Watson about poetry, social media and feminism

Scroll Staff

· Sep 08, 2018 · 01:00 pm

He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Poets are killed. They die. Their words don’t’: An art installation spotlights the power of poetry

Salil Tripathi

· Aug 21, 2018 · 11:30 am

What KG Subramanyan’s poetry says about his art (and what his art says about his poetry)

R Siva Kumar

· Aug 14, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why the US government maintained records on Rabindranath Tagore – and what they say

Tisha Mondal Judy Luis-Watson

· Aug 04, 2018 · 11:30 am

As he turns 69, Chinese poet Bei Dao remains the tranquil bard of protest, even in exile

Manan Kapoor

· Aug 02, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz is 72. These poems show she is in relentless pursuit of a new order

Fahmida Riaz Raza Naeem

· Jul 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Community, tradition and struggle: Inside India’s first government-funded transgender poetry meet

Upasana Agarwal

· Jul 22, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Blistering and unapologetic: The poems in this powerful collection throb with surefooted anger

Akhil Katyal

· Jun 30, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Kashmir, Pakistan, Islam: How poet Fatimah Asghar’s different diasporas inform her work

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Pride month: Seven poems to remind us of desire in all its forms

Rohini Kejriwal

· Jun 23, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Jun 10, 2018 · 06:30 pm

With the sea and the whale, it is present times that resonate in Ranjit Hoskote’s new book of poems

Anupama Raju

· May 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Tamil poet Subramania Bharati died in poverty, but his works sparked an unparalleled copyright war

AR Venkatachalapathy

· May 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Watch: Poetry meets video to break the shackles of a gendered, heteronormative society

Satvika Kundu

· Apr 17, 2018 · 08:00 pm