From "madar" and "matr" to "haft" and "sapta", the scores of parallels between Persian and Sanskrit are more than coincidence. They are linguistic reminders of a shared civilisation that is 4,000 ...

Bengaluru: Indian poet and spoken word performer Priya Malik has successfully concluded her UK tour titled Ishq Hai, marking a significant milestone for Indian spoken word on the global stage.

Chef Suvir Saran reinterprets Sahir Ludhianvi's poem, turning its anger into gratitude. He pays tribute to the women in his ...

Listen to Badshah perform while Priya Malik mesmerises you with her poetry at the Mumbai Fringe Festival this week in Mumbai ...

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Pakistan is often described as a poetic nation, and not without reason. Urdu poetry circulates with ease across class, region, and generation. Verses are memorised, quoted, sung, reposted, and ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...