How poetry can make less tangible subjects like climate change more real to readers

A poem can act as a witness to phenomena like global warming.

Christina Thatcher, The Conversation

· Jan 09, 2022 · 05:30 pm

How Kashmir’s emerging hip-hop scene could enable the revival of the fading local language of Koshur

Reclaiming their language through lyrics and poetry is one way young Kashmiris are hoping to build their identity.

Sheikh Safwan

· Dec 12, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Adele, Taylor Swift: Why break-up songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantic poets

Breakup pop, whether it knows it or not, is marked by a Romantic inheritance.

Anthony Howe, The Conversation

· Dec 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Kabir blended faiths but accepted none fully

The last part of a four-part series on the stories, historical and hagiographical, of the lives and times of four mystic poets.

Pavitra Mohan

· Nov 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: How Rahim combined war with poetry

The third of a four-part series on the stories, historical and hagiographical, of the lives and times of four mystic poets.

Pavitra Mohan

· Nov 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: Namdeo’s search for the formless god

The second of a four-part series on the stories, historical and hagiographical, of the lives and times of four mystic poets.

Pavitra Mohan

· Oct 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Head held high. Not pride, but need to survive’: Three poems from the libretto of ‘Giraffe Humming’

These poems by Dilip Menon feature in a forthcoming performance where they are also sung in Malayalam translation.

Dilip M Menon

· Oct 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

Meet the mystic poets from subcontinental history: Baba Farid, the Sufi face of Islam

The first of a four-part series on the stories, historical and hagiographical, of the lives and times of four mystic poets.

Pavitra Mohan

· Oct 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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