Sitting in the drawing room where Khumar saheb used to sit with various famous shayars and poets was an amazing feeling…
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Shalim Hussain’s ‘I am Miyah’ wins PEN Translates award
Poet and scholar Shalim Hussain on Tuesday won the English PEN’s flagship translation award 2021 for…
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…
Indian Rumis and the shadows of anti-Muslim violence
Recently, while the discussion around demuslimization of Maulana Rumi was gaining momentum, I was going through…
Noted Urdu poet Rahat Indori dies in Indore hospital
Noted Urdu poet Dr. Rahat Indori died following a massive heart attack on Tuesday, a day…
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…
Poet, journalist arrested in Karnataka over anti-CAA poem
Siraj recited a seven-stanza poem titled “Ninna Dakhale Yaavaga Needutti”, which translates as “When will you…