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The Lightness of Dissent
Shaikh Ayaz
Shilpa Gupta’s immersive works interrogate censorship and celebrate language
The Testament of a Poet
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
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
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
Akhil Katyal tells Urvashi Bahuguna how he finds Delhi crazily unequal and maddeningly beautiful
Open Conversation with Vijay Seshadri, Poet
‘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
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