poet

The Lightness of Dissent

Shaikh Ayaz

Shilpa Gupta’s immersive works interrogate censorship and celebrate language

A Plea for Love

Makarand R Paranjape

When a poet’s fixation meets with indifference

The Testament of a Poet

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil’s new novel chronicles the women whose roles were deleted from the gospels. The author speaks to Nandini Nair about the need to write these erasures

Sugathakumari (1934-2020): The Poet of Empathy

KM Seethi

Her resolute campaign for environmental protection and the rights of women earned her the fame of an ecofeminist poet

A White Elephant by the Ganges: A Russian bard’s fantasies about India

Ajay Kamalakaran

Vladimir Vysotsky, one of Russia’s most beloved 20th century poets, was fascinated with the India of his imagination, and wrote and sang a few timeless classics about the country in the 1970s

Poet of the Paradoxical City

Urvashi Bahuguna

Akhil Katyal tells Urvashi Bahuguna how he finds Delhi crazily unequal and maddeningly beautiful

Open Conversation with Vijay Seshadri, Poet

Tunku Varadarajan

‘If you want to look at Modi in a historical context, you would say, ‘Well, you can trace him all the way back to the Tulsi Ramayana,’ says Vijay Seshadri