Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

At a time when the offence-taking machinery is in overdrive, it is hard to imagine an era when poets wore defiance as a badge of honour.

Malini Nair

· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘Poets are killed. They die. Their words don’t’: An art installation spotlights the power of poetry

A talk by Salil Tripathi in support of Shilpa Gupta’s installation, which is a meditation on the persecution of poets worldwide.

Salil Tripathi

· Aug 21, 2018 · 11:30 am

Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas

The old guard is disapproving of his unrestrained manner but Imran Pratapgarhi uses his poetry to talk about social and political realities.

Wasi Manazir

· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 am

Is Keats’s famous ode, ‘To Autumn’, actually a warning about mass surveillance and social sharing?

That would make one of the most famous works of Romantic poetry a transcript of spying.

Richard Marggraf-Turley, The Conversation

· Oct 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

In the verses of Jordan's most popular poet, the hopes and fears of the Arab world

Laden with animals, conspiracy theories and apocalyptic visions, Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya's poetry reflects how many Arabs – urban and rural, rich and poor – view the world.

William Tamplin, The Conversation

· Nov 07, 2015 · 06:30 am