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Aimee Nezhukumatathil: The Alchemist

Urvashi Bahuguna

Aimee Nezhukumatathil turns the mundane into the magical. The Indian-American poet talks about her art and the idea of home

The Saint and the Sinner

Recent protests in Tamil Nadu against a lyricist’s ‘belittlement’ of the mystic poet Andal do little justice to the spirit of her verses

CP Surendran: ‘Poetry is the handle to the door of human experience’

The poet CP Surendran in his new book finds it difficult to separate politics from literature

Jeet Thayil: A Poet’s Fiction

Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair

The Air Perumal Murugan Breathes Is Still Venomous

The world after silence is full of stories. Perumal Murugan in conversation with V Shoba

Burning Embers

The girls are coming out of the woods, bearing revelatory words

Tishani Doshi: ‘The houses of love we make in our time here are worth singing’

Tishani Doshi on poetry, mortality, the female body and finding the lion in the wardrobe

A Poetic High

Spoken-word poetry is gaining a festive momentum in India

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