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  • Poetry and photographs for Kashmir: Is this or is this the dream I came home to?

    Poetry and photographs for Kashmir: Is this or is this the dream I came home to?

    Naveen Kishore and Amit Mehra
    · Jul 22, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • Ik kudi: Four stunning versions of Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi's most popular work

    Ik kudi: Four stunning versions of Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi's most popular work

    Nate Rabe
    · Jul 10, 2016 · 10:30 am
  • From Bulleh Shah and Shah Hussain to Amir Khusro, same-sex references abound in Islamic poetry

    From Bulleh Shah and Shah Hussain to Amir Khusro, same-sex references abound in Islamic poetry

    Haroon Khalid
    · Jun 17, 2016 · 05:30 pm
  • How 40 poets under 40 are writing India of the 1980s and 1990s

    How 40 poets under 40 are writing India of the 1980s and 1990s

    Nabina Das
    · May 28, 2016 · 12:00 pm
  • Remembering Nehru, Gandhi, Ghalib: Four poems by Sahir Ludhianvi

    Remembering Nehru, Gandhi, Ghalib: Four poems by Sahir Ludhianvi

    Sahir Ludhianvi
    · May 09, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • 'I am South Asian-American, Pakistani-Indian': Sophia Pandeya speaks on her poetry of love and loss

    'I am South Asian-American, Pakistani-Indian': Sophia Pandeya speaks on her poetry of love and loss

    Nate Rabe
    · May 01, 2016 · 09:30 am
  • Everybody is a poet: Spoken word poetry spills out of cafes and into the streets

    Everybody is a poet: Spoken word poetry spills out of cafes and into the streets

    Mayank Jain
    · Apr 25, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • ‘I have lit fires with songs of rebellion’: Memories of Sahir Ludhianvi’s college years

    ‘I have lit fires with songs of rebellion’: Memories of Sahir Ludhianvi’s college years

    Akshay Manwani
    · Mar 08, 2016 · 05:41 pm
  • ‘After every war’: reading poetry in the dark times

    ‘After every war’: reading poetry in the dark times

    Nabina Das
    · Feb 21, 2016 · 01:30 pm
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