India publishes poetry in more than 24 recognised languages every single year. The Sahitya Akademi, the country's national academy of letters, gives out annual awards for poetry in languages ranging ...

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 ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the country’s open grasslands are not degraded forests but ancient ecosystems in ...

India celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Republic Day last week. It is a nation with an old and powerful literary tradition, and can count centuries of scribal and oral output in several languages ...

Indian diplomats have a long and storied history of contribution to literature, ranging from acclaimed novels to short stories and poetry. India’s ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros, Abhay Kumar — ...

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 ...

'100 Great Indian Poems' is an anthology of poems in 28 languages, including Kashmiri, Bengali, Tamil and Urdu, and boasts the works of legendary Indian poets such as Mirza Ghalib and Firaq Gorakhpuri ...

Narendra Modi, the man whose campaign to become prime minister divided and electrified the people of India, released an anthology of his poems in an English translation last month. Modi has been ...

Saanchi Gupta | Nov 28, 2025, 2:33 PM IST Veteran actor Dharmendra's last poem, sung for the 'Ikkis' movie, goes viral. It's titled "Pind Apne Nu Jaanwa", which beautifully captures his longing to ...

Mainstream. The word holds little significance for a major chunk of the transgender community in India. But for a brief moment, their legitimacy was ‘mainstream’ when the trans community in Kolkata ...