Great Poets

Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion

The Urdu poet was born on February 13, 1911 in Sialkot of undivided India.

Amir Suhail Wani
· Feb 13, 2025 · 08:30 am
227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets

Mirza Ghalib was born on this day, 27 December, in 1797 in Agra.

Amir Suhail Wani
· Dec 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Ten years after Seamus Heaney’s death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures

Heaney’s voice, like the harvest bow, is ‘burnished by its passage, and still warm.’

Fran Brearton, The Conversation
· Jan 07, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Why do young readers and social media find Jaun Elia's poetry so relevant today?

The poet reinvented the ghazal-scape of Urdu.

Ammar Aziz
· May 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Rivers, nostalgia, and solitude: Poet Jayanta Mahapatra’s essential art at 94

‘Up close, I see him as an individual who holds in his gentle palms the key to lead us back to a humane reality and the natural world.’

Nabina Das
· May 20, 2023 · 01:30 pm
‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

One of the last of the towering litterateurs of Bengal, Shankha Ghosh died of Covid-19 on Wednesday, April 21 at the age of 89.

Shankha Ghosh
· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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Great Poets

Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion

The Urdu poet was born on February 13, 1911 in Sialkot of undivided India.

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