Ek Khumar ki Shaam (An evening of intoxication): A visit to Khumar Barabankvi’s home

Sitting in the drawing room where Khumar saheb used to sit with various famous shayars and poets was an amazing feeling…

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…