India publishes poetry in more than 24 languages every year. The Sahitya Akademi gave eight poetry awards in 2025 alone. K.

Indian actress and poetry presenter Spruha Joshi will be part of a poetry and music program Saturday in Columbus. Columbus Ganesh Mandal is hosting a playful Marathi poetry recital program, ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

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 ...

Back after a Covid enforced hiatus, India's premier, standalone poetry festival will be held at the India Habitat Centre - on 10th and 11th December 2022. Delhi Poetry Festival (DPF) 6th edition ...

Sometimes, poets are instructive to read on poetry and poets--not only does one get the critical analysis, but also a privileged peek at how artists view their own art. A two-in-one, as it were. Which ...

How did you arrive at ‘walking’ as the unifying idea behind the collection? Schoolgirls walking much like the poet Sivakami Velliangiri and her friends did. “ As a schoolgirl, walking was a collective ...

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 ...

Universities around the world are shutting down humanities programmes, saying they don’t lead directly to jobs. But education ...