‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma

Translated from the Tamil by N Kalyan Raman.

Salma

· Apr 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19

‘A zoom screen is no mirror / and I hide self-view because / I am exhausted of / forgetting who I am.’

Saumya R Kedia

· Feb 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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

Three poems by the legendary poet who died on Wednesday, December 9. Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell.

Mangalesh Dabral

· Dec 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

‘There’s nothing left to talk about. Candles are all out.’ Poetry of silence.

Anupama Raju

· Nov 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘A New World Symphony’: A sequence of poems by actor Soumitra Chatterjee

The actor had a deep and long literary life as a playwright, poet, writer and editor. He died on Sunday, November 15, at the age of 85.

Soumitra Chatterjee

· Nov 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

Eight poems by Srivalli, translated from the Tamil by N Kalyan Raman.

Srivalli

· Aug 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The great leader’ appears in Varanasi in this poem about the city’s past and present

A poem from Ashwani Kumar’s collection, ‘Banaras And The Other’.

Ashwani Kumar

· Apr 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘A Kind of Freedom Song’: In life and mythology, women find a voice after violence in these poems

Eight poems from Aditi Rao’s second poetry collection.

Aditi Rao

· Apr 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

#NaPoWriMo: 10 poets from India who are embracing (and excelling at) National Poetry Writing Month

This April, like every year since 2003, is bringing us some fantastic daily poetry. Here are 10 poets worth following.

Rohini Kejriwal

· Apr 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Faith is trapped in the teeth of fire’: Two poems by Gulzar on India today

‘Once again necks have lolled, heads have been chopped off / People have been divided, and their gods too.’

Gulzar

· Apr 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Out of Syllabus’: Three poems from Sumana Roy’s dazzling debut collection

In these selections from her first poetry collection, the novelist and memoirist writes of desire, sadness and the violence faced by a woman in India.

Sumana Roy

· Apr 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘We have heard your call’: Gulzar replies to Javed Akhtar’s stirring poem asking writers to speak up

‘You are not alone, we have heeded that challenge’

Gulzar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 01:11 pm