Meet The Poet
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How an anonymous poetry page on Instagram is bringing hope to political activism
Hamraaz is an anonymous poet on Instagram writing about instances of oppression.
Yamini Krishnan
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‘The indulgence of examining my own psyche using words seems so narcissistic’: Poet Prerna Gill
‘Through writing, I examine how I’ve been compromised by fears, stillness that some may call the blues, other’s ennui, or even laziness.’
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri
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‘Poetry gives me the chance to confess even when I’m not in the act of confession’: Poet Kiran Bhat
‘I pride myself on being an experimental writer, and I don’t like to make things just for the sake of finding an audience.’
Vinita Agrawal
Trending
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Seven firms that failed drug quality test gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why did a Union minister say he would apply for Indian citizenship under CAA?
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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India’s latest GDP growth numbers are ‘mystifying’, says former chief economic advisor
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‘A critical reading of the Ramayana opened me up to its riches’: Poet Vivek Narayanan
‘The only way to keep tradition alive is, ironically, through innovation.’
Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
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‘My kind of ideas are practical ideas. There is nothing ideological about them’: Poet Vijay Seshadri
‘In the macroscopic world of poetry, poets are still dealing with the issue of vocalisation and whether they like it not, they are committed to natural speech.’
Jeet Thayil & John Wilkinson
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‘Failure is an opportunity. Failure is art. Failure is human’: Poet Raena Shirali
‘I reference that these poems are failures – failures to embody another persona and fully understand a phenomenon so far from my personal experience.’
Mariyam Haider
Video
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Caught on camera: Container ship hits and knocks down gantry cranes while docking at a Turkey port
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Watch: Temple in Kochi gets a mechanical elephant to perform prayer rituals
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Watch: Srinagar hosts Formula 4 car show on the roads around Dal Lake
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Watch: Scenes of damage after four coaches of a Sabarmati-Agra train were derailed in Ajmer
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Adorable animals: Playful elephant calf keeps stopping cleaner from raking leaves
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‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry
Akhil Katyal on his favourite poets, translating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry, editing an anthology of queer poetry from South Asia, and more.
Sayari Debnath
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Meet Rajiv Mohabir, the Guyanese poet of Indian origin who writes to remind himself that he is alive
Migration is his ‘dharma’, and his world in poetry stretches to colonialism, linguistic identity, religiosity, and his ancestors.
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao
An interview with the Bengaluru-based poet and translator who has one of the most distinctive writing styles in India.
Rohini Kejriwal
The Reel
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‘Adrishyam’ trailer: Eijaz Khan and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya play undercover agents
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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‘Crew’ trailer: Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon play stewardesses involved in smuggling
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‘I wanted to land this film correctly’: Why actor Kunal Kemmu chose to direct ‘Madgaon Express’
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Kashmir, Pakistan, Islam: How poet Fatimah Asghar’s different diasporas inform her work
‘When you’re a person of colour in America you kind of operate without a home.’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry
The award-winning poet believed a writer cannot be apolitical but thinks voting is an exercise in futility.
Kavitha Muralidharan
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Inspiring poet or scripted performer? Rupi Kaur refuses to be labeled as one or the other
At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Rupi Kaur won over the crowd but didn’t change the minds of her critics. The poet, however, is fine with that.
Harsimran Gill
The Field
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WPL 2024: From captain Meg Lanning to rising star Shreyanka Patil – The Field’s team of the season
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Wrestling: IOA dissolves ad-hoc committee; elected body to take charge of national federation
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Hockey: Harmanpreet Singh to lead 27-member Indian squad for Australia tour
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IWL 2023-24: Odisha FC inch closer to title with win over East Bengal
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WPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bangalore deliver lesson on making comebacks to win first title