Almost entirely ignored by urban India, the farmer once held pride of place in literature and poetry

From Premchand to the Progressive Writers, from political poets to film lyricists, they all wrote about farmers once. Not anymore.

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Dec 01, 2018 · 07:00 am

Poetry has the power to inspire change like no other art form

Poems are as relevant now as ever, whether you are a regular reader or not.

Kate North, The Conversation

· Oct 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

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

‘Do not say in the force of eloquence / Actually this woman was a believer...’

Fahmida Riaz

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Raza Naeem

· Jul 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why we must not forget Robert Frost when we read modern poetry. He made the everyday extraordinary

Shorn of the flourish of rhetoric, treading close to prose, Frost’s poetry is a true hallmark of the undramatic modern.

M Saad

· Apr 08, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay

The maverick lyric poet died on this day, March 23, in 1995, hours after delivering a lecture in Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan.

Maitreyee B Chowdhury

· Mar 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Rupi Kaur’s bad poems shouldn’t worry us – the myopic view of the literary establishment should

The ‘cult of personality’ developed by social media poets is nothing new. We should focus instead on the lack of translation in the world of Anglophone poetry.

Souradeep Roy

· Mar 17, 2018 · 07:30 am

If the Internet and social media have not destroyed poetry, then why all the criticism?

The way people consume poetry is changing and that’s both good and bad.

Rajashree Gandhi

· Mar 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Aditi Machado, Tishani Doshi, Sophia Naz: Poetry meets other passions in the works of these poets

All three women write poetry informed with their personal involvement with other forms of art.

Nabina Das

· Feb 25, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Poetry is more popular than ever. Then why are not all poets happy about it?

Does popular poetry necessarily mean bad poetry?

JT Welsch, The Conversation

· Feb 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Five poets join a chapbook movement to put more poetry in the hands of people

Interviews with the poets reveal how they picked the poems.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Dec 09, 2017 · 08:30 am

Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary: These verses show us that Urdu poets revered the founder of Sikhism

There is a rich tradition in Urdu literature of poems on the first guru of Sikhism, including a pairing with Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Nov 04, 2017 · 05:30 pm

How Rupi Kaur introduces feminism through accessible verse

Kaur can speak to a live audience as effectively as those on Instagram and Tumblr.

Ashwini Tambe

· Oct 19, 2017 · 06:30 pm