They removed my hijab

Dr Zoya Ayesha Went in for theinterview,but didn’t face anystrict view;my heart was leapingwith joy,naively thinking…

A ghazal for this land

They laugh when I say men can be exiled within their land, Some run from tens…

Video | A letter poem to Professor Hany Babu

Hany Babu's student at Delhi University and an academic publishing professional Shivangi Mariam Raj wrote this…

Dear Hany, this is just to say

In the utterance of word, there hunches a mountain that I must climb—and just when I…

Poems from the ‘other’ side

From banning artists to setting up a fundamentalist narrative around poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz- the…

Rao’s poems made ones in power uncomfortable: 50 young poets in solidarity with jailed poet

More than fifty young poets across the country have expressed their solidarity with people's poet Varavara…

Poem: Akhil Gogoi, Incarcerated

In the path of struggle without Akhil, the people’s struggle in Assam has come to a…

And people stayed home

The poem ' And people stayed home' is written by in 1869 - about 10 years…