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Dazzled by Their Soul

Our politician poets such as Kapil Sibal are so in love with themselves that they believe every eructation of theirs deserves a readership.

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2 Mar 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
Rhythm and Blues

Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel

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11 Jan 2012 | BY Rahul Pandita
The Tendulkar Who Writes Poetry

Sachin’s eldest brother Nitin has just released his third book of poems

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10 Feb 2011 | BY Akshay Sawai
Lullaby of a New Father in Parliament

My son, apple of my scheming eyes, I have so many dreams for you...

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1 Oct 2010 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai
A Life with a View

This is poetry by a mellow Pritish Nandy, a man who thinks he’s aged.

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9 Jun 2010 | BY Sandipan Deb
A Midsummer Adventure For Children

Prithvi theatre holds one of the most popular workshops for kids with theatre, comics, and even science and poetry.

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20 May 2010 | BY Shubhangi Swarup
Darwin’s Poetry

The great-great-great-grand daughter of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel knows a thing or two about survival.

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20 Jan 2010 | BY Rahul Jayaram
Kitte Mil Ve Mahi

This is not the prosperous Punjab of its airbrushed mythology. This is a story of its impoverished Dalits and how they have come to be the keepers of the Sufi way of life.

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22 Aug 2009
Rhyme and Treason

Today, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size

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13 Jul 2009 | BY Vivek Narayanan
Did You Say Poetry Is a Bore?

It’s leaving its stuffy image behind as performance poets jump onto stage and get the crowd high on their rhythm

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3 Jul 2009 | BY Avantika Bhuyan
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