‘The Veiled Suite’: Rereading Agha Shahid Ali 10 years after his collected poems were published

The poet’s verses mourning Kashmir return hauntingly as news headlines.

Radhika Oberoi

· Mar 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Every time we read a poem, it gives us a new meaning.

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

‘How my debut poetry manuscript was edited to become a full-fledged book’

The journey from a collection of poems to a complete book ready for readers.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2019 · 09:02 am

How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice

Arun Kolatkar’s ‘Sapra Satra’ reminds us that once the fire of vengeance has been lit, it can never be put out.

Nachiket Joshi

· Mar 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century

From Stephane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire to Paul Verlaine, they all wrote about India.

Saudamini Deo

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Philippe Charlier

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

What a poet learned from Mary Oliver (1935-2019), who was unabashedly in love with the world

Oliver’s legacy isn’t just her poetry but why she wrote it and how others responded to it.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

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