Poetry in India has always been more than art; it has been emotion, philosophy, and rebellion wrapped in rhythm. From the soulful verses of Gulzar, the depth of Javed Akhtar, and the timeless ...

Marking the 56th Earth Day, people across continents came together through poetry, reciting and recording the Earth Anthem, a composition by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. that calls for a shared sense ...

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 ...

Editors Sukrita Paul Kumar (left) and Vinita Agrawal. “…This year, one of the distinctive features in the selected poems turns out to be that of many poets unravelling their connection with their ...

Many students and scholars have read about the “gloomy pine trees” in Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “The Song of Hiawatha,” but few know the poem’s actual roots. Robert Dale Parker, ...

Celebrate World Poetry Day by exploring eight inspiring Indian women poets who shaped literature with powerful voices. From Sarojini Naidu to Meena Kandasamy, their works reflect identity, emotion, ...

Reviewed by Benjamin Ivry Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930 Edited by Robert Dale Parker University of Pennsylvania Press, 434 pp., $34.95 Poetry anthologies ...

The Indian Republic Day Kavi Sammelan and Mushaira 2005 (poetry recital session) was held recently under the patronage of Y.K. Sinha, Consul General of India, at the Shaikh Rashid Auditorium of the ...