3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (140+ words) He was well known for Cholkkazhcha, a performance-cum-recital of Malayalam poems with acting and visual expressions, at cultural forums in Kozhikode Published - September 09, 2026 09:34 pm IST - Kozhikode R. Mohan, poet and cultural activist, passed away here on Wednesday (September 9, 2026) evening. He was…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (250+ words) Published - September 06, 2026 08:55 pm IST - MANGALURU Rashtrakavi Manjeshwara Govinda Pai Memorial Trust and Govinda Pai Memorial Government College observed the death anniversary of the late poet at Gilivindu, the late poet’s memorial in Manjeshwara in Kasargod district on Sunday. A large…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) Published - August 24, 2026 08:16 pm IST - TIRUCHI Lovers of Urdu poetry flocked to the mushaira (poetry gathering) organised by the Tiruchi Urdu Sangam after a hiatus of 10 years in the city on Monday. The mushaira, a South Asian literary tradition where Urdu…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (445+ words) Grief, in its different forms, whether solastalgia, Weltschmerz or anticipatory loss, lies at the core of this anthology, which draws deeply from what is happening in the world right now. Could you tell us more? The last three years have…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (232+ words) Updated - August 20, 2026 09:23 pm IST Gulzar came to film songwriting at a time when the lyricists’ fraternity was a formidable roll-call of masters such as Shailendra, Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Rajendra Krishan amongst others. Gulzar wrote his first film song for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (392+ words) Updated - August 20, 2026 10:06 am IST English poetry can sometimes come with its own set of barriers: the language, the rooms where it is performed, the people who fill those rooms. For Reserved Compartment, a collective of four Dalit poets, the answer…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) Imagine thousands marching through the streets before India became independent — no microphones, no loudspeakers. Yet one voice would start singing, and hundreds would join in, until the whole crowd sang as one. These songs were far more than music — they…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (75+ words) Celebrating the spirit of nationhood through art. On the other end of the spectrum was Hindi poet Makhanlal Chaturvedi’s 1921 poem ‘Pushp ki Abhilasha’. It was written from the perspective of a flower that desires to be plucked and placed on…...