An unforgettable evening of poetry, emotions, and powerful storytelling at the NDTV Creators Manch, where some of the most ...

Using repetition to splice two genres – the oriental ghazal and the blues – this humorous offering demonstrates the poet's joy in language and form There's always a wealth of interesting new writing ...

As much as an expression of emotions and ideas, poetry is also a manifestation of the culture, tradition and socio-political conditions of a society. Language, the cloak of poetry, is itself deeply ...

Is there anywhere I won't die? Maybe a place called Guam where my body lives, drinking and singing about Guam Last night I got so tired I don't think I even had a skeleton beneath the sheets of my ...

Frances W. Pritchett, a well-known critic of Urdu and professor at Columbia University, writes: “To me ghazal’s reliance on its wonderful networks of images and conventions makes it very clear that ...

The Ghazal is a form, with its emphasis on Radif, Makta and Matla (and a sensibility that’s innate to Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry), which isn’t easy to pull off in English. Of the modern English ...

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 ...

The three-day theatre festival which was conducted at Keshavrao Bhosale Natyagruha came to an end on a poetic note as poetry and ghazals took through the event. A team of 7 poets which included Nissim ...