Poetry Picks
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‘Dreaming of her hunger, I sob in my arms’: Read six new poems by Ashwani Kumar
‘I wake up to the sound of gunshots in the streets. / Where is she? Where is she?’
Ashwani Kumar
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‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma
Translated from the Tamil by N Kalyan Raman.
Salma
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‘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
Trending
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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LG Vinai Kumar Saxena approves sacking of 223 Delhi Commission for Women employees
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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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
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‘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
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‘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
Video
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
The Reel
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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#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
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‘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
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‘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
The Field
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Salima Tete to lead Indian women’s team for European leg
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women exit in quarter-final after loss to Japan
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Squash, Saurav Ghosal interview: ‘People enjoyed watching me, this was the legacy I wanted to leave’
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Aryan, Yashwardhan, Priyanshu among Indians in semi-finals
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