Poetry
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‘Ichhamati’: A classic Bengali novel set along a river is an archive of a forgotten ecological past
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel, published in 1950, wonderfully and gently evokes a way of life next to a river that is almost extinct.
Parineeta Dandekar
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Imtiaz Dharker turns down England’s poet laureateship to focus on her work
Dharker was born in Lahore and lived in India for several years.
Scroll Staff
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Watch: In rarely heard 1974 interview, Leonard Cohen (in animation) explains 'Sisters of Mercy'
Plus: an early poem, 'Two Went To Sleep'.
Scroll Staff
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language