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dohas of Rahim: Rahim's role as a protagonist of syncretism and a secular worldview is reflected in his collection of over 700 Dohas.

How the timeless 'dohas' of Rahim — the 16th-century Mughal-general-turned-poet — speak to modern India

December 23, 2025 2:44 pm

This anthology resurrects the 16th-century Mughal noble Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, celebrating his timeless poetry, a syncretic vision that transcends its age to speak directly to the modern soul.

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh: A poet of his times – and ours

Sixty years after his death, remembering Muktibodh’s poetry — and his refusal to simplify reality

September 10, 2025 3:51 pm

From his attention to method to his political defiance, Muktibodh offers a vital lesson for a time obsessed with ‘accessibility’ and message-driven art

As the man who brought into vogue a heady concoction of politics and poetry, Vajpayee will be remembered equally for both.

'Haar nahin maanunga...': Remembering Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the poet Prime Minister

August 25, 2025 11:51 am

A stalwart of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Vajpayee died at 93 on August 16, 2018, after a prolonged illness.

South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon in Berlin in 2023. She wrote Autobiography of Death

Who is the South Korean poet behind 'Autobiography of Death'? Inside Kim Hyesoon’s searing verse

July 30, 2025 11:12 am

Kim Hyesoon is the first Asian writer to win International Prize for Literature by Germany’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt for her searing and surreal poetry collection Autobiography of Death.

New $5,000 biennial poetry in translation prize opens for submissions on July 15

July 14, 2025 7:17 pm

The prize money will be split evenly between poet and translator, and the collection will be simultaneously published across Australia, North America, and the UK.

Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi Literature, Chaayavaad Poet, poetry

5 poetry books by Sumitranandan Pant that will change how you see nature and life

July 15, 2025 7:18 pm

Bounded together by artistic literature, one of the greatest poets of Hindi Literature, Sumitranandan Pant, explores the purpose of life within the beauty of nature through his poetry.

Why Sylvia Plath still speaks to us

February 13, 2025 7:36 pm

She was not writing just about herself — she was writing about all of us. In this strange liminality of being in my twenties, where childhood is fading but adulthood still feels like an ill-fitting costume, reading Plath feels like both a mirror and a map