Poet R. Parthasarathy dies at 91. Explore his journey from British alienation in Rough Passage to the definitive translation ...

Indian poetry shifting seamlessly from devotional lyricism to sharp modern introspection and it is reflected deeply in some best poetry books ...

India publishes poetry in more than 24 languages every year. The Sahitya Akademi gave eight poetry awards in 2025 alone. K. Satchidanandan has 32 books in 18 languages. Arundhathi Subramaniam was ...

Twenty four rare audio recordings of well-known Indian poets in English have been made freely available for the first time by a private, Mumbai-based initiative. These recordings of a poetry session ...

PLAYS in India often seem to Westerners like pretty long-winded affairs. Well, as a matter of fact, they are. What many Westerners really can’t quite grasp, though, is that Indians like them that way ...

Perspectives on the Poetry of K V Raghupathi’ is a significant critical work devoted to the poetry of K V Raghupathi, one of ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

Even as everyone was celebrating India and Indians at the Oscars, I am celebrating one of my all-time favorite Hindi writers and poet who was conferred with the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...