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‘There was no telling where a new bud might sprout’

Girish Karnad

In his memoir, translated for the first time into English, Girish Karnad writes that his artistic evolution began the instant he set foot in college

The Garden of Ghalib

Aditya Mani Jha

Scholars continue to chase the motives and metaphors of the poet

‘Bleed Out Your Truth’

Antara Raghavan

Vismaya Mohanlal’s debut collection of poems and paintings reflects her search for meaning and identity

Unfree Verse

Madhavankutty Pillai

What a $1 million grant for social justice poetry says about the dangers to creativity today

Gibberish Galore

Aditya Mani Jha

The enduring pleasures of nonsense stories and verse

A Poet’s Prose

Suhit Kelkar

Dom Moraes’ travelogue is delicious piece of literary journalism from the 1950s

Pandemic Verses

Dipankar Gupta

Ode to Lysol and limericks

Anthem and Salve

Poorna Swami

The poetry of resistance gains new audience

In Search of Meaning

Poorna Swami

Poems where the tender is in conversation with the political

‘I’m more interested in what remains when the story is done’

Urvashi Bahuguna

Arundhathi Subramaniam’s recent collection of poems revisits childhood, friendships and ageing

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