poems
Letters to Mother
Narendra Modi
‘My expressions are often abstract; perhaps when the heart is overwhelmed the mind races faster than the hand on paper’
Ranjit Hoskote: Between the Sea and the Shore
The many avatars of Ranjit Hoskote blaze forth in his new poetry collection. Suhit Kelkar meets the poet and curator
Homeward Bound
Manohar Shetty’s confessional poems are responses to domesticity and the charms of Goa. The poet in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna
Eastern Rhapsodies
A compilation of unpublished poems from Rabindranath Tagore’s visits to China and Japan
The Engineer of Human Souls
Rehaan Engineer lives by a simple diktat: whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his tongue
When Something Works
As with her first collection of poems, Tishani Doshi’s best poems here are those in which a female experience, located boldly in the body, works as a comment on something larger
Couplet Omlette
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translations of Kabir, with a generous dose of American slang, are awkward at times. But the remix experiment is worth the risk of failure
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