Poetic Dissent
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Faiz’s verses have been dropped from Indian textbooks – but the power of his ideas will endure
In today’s times, ideas, especially those of diversity, struggles and non-alignment are dangerous, for young minds.
Chapal Mehra
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Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America
His poems resonated with those who were betrayed by the promise of the American Dream.
Jason Miller, The Conversation
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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
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Opinion: Why is Modi the only prime minister who is haunted by Nehru’s ghost?
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DU professor arrested for social media post about claimed shivling in Gyanvapi mosque
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‘The bell-eared demon’: When Swami Vivekananda warned how worship could become fanaticism
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In Varanasi, worried Muslims flock to Gyanvapi mosque in greater numbers after part of it is sealed
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Assam NRC coordinator files FIR against predecessor for ‘anti-national activities’
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‘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
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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
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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
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