How Binoy Majumdar re-wrote the grammar of Dalit poetry and politics, and was ostracised for it

September 17 marked the 87th birth anniversary of the nomoshudro Bengali poet.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Sep 18, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Polytheists, monotheists, infidels tell me there is no country for writers’: Five poems on freedom

Is a writer truly free today? Ashwini Kumar poses the question in his poetry.

Ashwani Kumar

· Sep 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Books of an occupied land carry corpses of all ages’: Poems for Samir Mansour Bookshop in Gaza

A selection of poetry written for the iconic bookshop in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing, curated by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee.

Karan Kapoor

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Antara Rao

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Alolika Dutta

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Saima Afreen

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Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Aug 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How the Partition contributed to the ‘queerness’ of Urdu poetry to make it non-normative

The second and final instalment of an essay originally published in 2016.

Priya Satia

· Jul 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Priya Satia: Why poetry remains a primary resource in remembering and understanding the Partition

The first instalment of an essay originally published in 2016.

Priya Satia

· Jul 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘In the disconnected land’: How young poets in Kashmir are responding to the changed reality

While established poets are relatively silent on the matter, emerging voices are anguished and angry.

Safwat Zargar

· Jul 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘We text, text, text, our significant words’: Poems for those in long-distance relationships

When being physically close together is impossible, thanks to the pandemic.

Kate North, The Conversation

· Feb 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Humour in poems has the power to promote reflective thinking.

Christina Thatcher, The Conversation

· Feb 12, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Christmas conjunction of planets: Ten anthems for the solar system

On Monday, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn come together in the sky over Earth for the legendary ‘Christmas kiss’.

Abhay K

· Dec 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘How many more days this way, democracy?’: Five poems of lamentation and love from Assam

Politics and violence, language and longing, feature in this selection curated by Urvashi Bahuguna.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Poet Hoshang Merchant reads and annotates academic Brinda Bose’s collection of Calcutta poems

How does a poet read poetry?

Hoshang Merchant

· Sep 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Breathing. One does it through masks these days. Unless someone kneels on one’s neck’

Three poems for the age of the pandemic, by Dilip M Menon.

Dilip M Menon

· Aug 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm