More than three decades after being a couture jeweller, Raj Mahtani’s heart is looking for a slice of the old-new. He is rekindling his old passions to connect in a newer avatar. And his first attem...

Multiple FIRs have been filed against a college teacher in Assam for allegedly trying to defame Sahitya Akademi Award winning writer and former Asam Sahitya Sabha president Syed Abdul Malik by uploadi...

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Before you leave for Pakistan,Keep in store a fistful of earthScooped up from the heart of Rajghat Where non-violence reposesFrom beneath the scented rootsOf the rose plant thatDiscovered IndiaFrom th...

Pink Floyd co-founder and guitarist Roger Waters this week publicly recited an English translation of a poem written by “a young poet and activist in Delhi involved in the fight against Modi and his...

It has been a year since Mary Oliver passed away, which is the sort of occasion that would lead one straight to her poetry for an opportunity to reflect. And one of the things about the American poet ...

Kashmir’s poets haven’t been completely silenced by the siege. While sharing the sense of hurt and humiliation felt by Kashmiris after the unilateral abrogation of Article 370 and the subsequent l...

What is an epic is an important theme for debate. Can poetry help us understand the world? More specifically, can epic poetry provide a framework on which to base our view of historical events? The In...

The past five weeks have successfully insulated us from the outside world as well as from each other even in the immediate neighbourhoods. Through some divine providence, it dawned on me that the only...

Shake your chains to earth like dewWhich in sleep had fallen on youYe are many — they are fewThe Masque of Anarchy composed by P.B. Shelley in 1819 was in protest against the Peterloo Massacre in En...