Poetry and the art of kinship 12 November 2015 The 31st feature of Poetry International’s India domain trains the spotlight on four strong … |
Introduction to India's thirtieth feature 1 November 2014 If a preoccupation runs through the work of all three poets in this feature, the thirtieth for our … |
The way home 21 December 2013 Welcome to the twenty-ninth publication of the India domain on Poetry International! This issue … |
‘An ode to the mundane’ 21 December 2013 When she was thirteen, Monika Kumar travelled from her native town, Nakodar, to its big Other, … |
‘For All My Memories Are Not Tormented Ones’ 15 March 2011 Giriraj Kiradoo (poet and editor of Pratilipi) discusses the Hindi poetry of Prabhat and its … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – March 2011 15 March 2011 If you were to look for a recurrent trope in the 27th edition of the India domain, you’d find two: … |
“Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi” 1 December 2010 PIW is proud to present this previously unpublished interview with renowned Sindhi writer Popati … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – December 2010 1 December 2010 ‘Migration’ is the theme of the twenty-sixth issue of the PIW India domain. |
Where Manhattan Meets the Mahabharata 1 December 2010 When I began Vijay Seshadri’s The Disappearances I believed I was on reasonably familiar … |
Looking at the Body of a Poem 1 August 2010 In which Teji Grover reflects on poetry as “the pleasure of the thing not understood”, language … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry — August 2010 1 August 2010 “We are just ordinary people, aren’t we?/ But we try to do extraordinary things” writes Malayalam … |
The Land as “Living Presence” 1 May 2010 Mamang Dai talks to Arundhathi Subramaniam about landscapes true, sacred and imagined – and the … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – May 2010 1 May 2010 “Why can’t poets be happy?” is a question I’ve heard so often that I have actually begun to … |
Ibomcha and the poetics of the “huge mad laugh” 15 February 2010 Manipuri poet Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh talks to Robin Ngangom about his desire to write poems that … |
“Self-expression as self-extinction” 15 February 2010 Senior Telugu poet K. Siva Reddy talks Marxism and modernism, the personal and the political, as … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – November 2009 1 November 2009 “Song turns missile in battle”, says one poet. Another speaks of Mirza Ghalib’s ageing hands in … |
“I will write as long as I still care about people” 1 August 2009 Oriya poet Bharat Majhi talks to Rabindra K Swain about inspiration, irony and the old man at the … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – August 2009 1 August 2009 Poets aren’t the only ones who use words. The rub is that everyone does. But poets are the ones … |
The River, the Boat and the World 1 August 2009 Assamese poet Jiban Narah talks to Arundhathi Subramaniam about what it means to chart a course … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – May 2009 1 May 2009 Someone once said that translation is, at its best, an echo. And many, it appears, would agree. “A … |
Where the Festival is also a Hunt . . . 1 May 2009 I first noticed P.P. Ramachandran when his poems began to appear in Malayalam literary periodicals … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry – February 2009 1 February 2009 Poetry in times of peril: that’s the theme for the nineteenth edition of the India domain. The … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry - November 2008 1 November 2008 There is a belief that editors are essentially empire-builders (and not necessarily in mufti); … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry — June 2008 1 July 2008 Once in a while, an edition emerges as a result of serendipity rather than design. This is one of … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry — December 2007 1 December 2007 Places. That is the theme for the fifteenth edition of the India domain. |
Welcome to Indian Poetry — September 2007 1 September 2007 It’s been thirteen editions, seventeen languages and several reiterations of the fact that this … |
“To arrive is to die” 1 June 2007 In which Oriya poet Rajendra Kishore Panda discusses language, rebellion, salvation … |
The Poetics of Othering 1 June 2007 Udaya Narayana Singh talks to Rizio Yohannan Raj about his Muse in Maithili. |
Welcome to Indian poetry - June 2007 1 June 2007 Another edition, another language.Enter Maithili, the seventeenth language on the India domain. |
“Life becomes unbearable if you are fed and hated.” 1 March 2007 Basudev Sunani talks to Rabindra Swain about the brahminism of the Oriya literary scene and what … |
Poetry as a Radical Discourse of Demystification 1 March 2007 K.G. Sankara Pillai’s poetry unsettles idiom and ideology, combining self-doubt with social … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry - March 2007 1 March 2007 With this edition we introduce our sixteenth language – Oriya – into the India domain. |
The Universe in the Closet 1 December 2006 Tamil poet Salma on the point at which a private crisis becomes the collective biography of … |
Poems are a garland of small freedoms 1 December 2006 Kanaka talks to Priya D’Souza about poetry as a continuous march towards the self. |
Welcome to Indian Poetry - December 2006 1 December 2006 Someone once asked me after a poetry reading why the language of my ‘personal’ poems … |
Welcome to Indian Poetry - September 2006 1 September 2006 Writing poetry, someone said, is like throwing a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for … |
Global in Gangtok 1 September 2006 From the picturesque capital of Sikkim, nestled among the lush mountains of the lower Himalayas, … |
"Successor of Manjit, Daughter of Amrita" 1 September 2006 Nirupama Dutt on poetry and prejudice, Partition and Punjab – and the charge of being a poet of … |
Homecomings 1 June 2006 In this previously unpublished essay, a ruminative and elliptical prose poem in its own right, … |
Poetry and the Good Girl Syndrome, an interview with Anamika 1 June 2006 Hindi poet Anamika on rabbits, telling it slant, and translation as hopscotch, crossword puzzle … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - June 2006 1 June 2006 In the ninth edition of the India domain we feature two significant practitioners in Gujarati and … |
The Writer and the Community: A Case for Literary Ambidexterity 1 March 2006 This essay is essentially a discourse on the virtues of knowing two languages and writing well in … |
From the Land of ‘Half–Humans’ and ‘Nameless Citizens’ 1 March 2006 Leading Manipuri poet Thangjam Ibopishak Singh seems to be a man of few words. But in this brief … |
Weaving the Body with Words 1 March 2006 Kutti Revathi discusses her fraught position as a Tamil woman poet in a male-dominated literary … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - March 2006 1 March 2006 What do a 57 year-old Manipuri author, a 41 year-old Khasi poet and a 31 year-old Tamil author … |
Live Update: A Brief Introduction to New Marathi Poetry 1 December 2005 In which poet, editor and translator Sachin Ketkar discusses a contemporary Marathi poetry milieu … |
The Poet as Profane Monk 1 December 2005 Gieve Patel talks to Arundhathi Subramaniam about his “slightly sick concern with the body” and … |
‘The faster I drive, the better I write.’ 1 December 2005 Chandrakant Shah on poetry and speeding tickets; on authoring “the first pop album of Gujarati … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - December 2005 1 December 2005 Someone asked me the other day if the India domain proposed to “stay with the known names”. |
The Word as Sanctuary 31 August 2005 Bengali poet Joy Goswami on how he makes poetry: on flight, rescue and the terrifying … |
Spy, Interpreter, Double Agent 1 June 2005 June 1, 2005 Ranjit Hoskote talks to Arundhathi Subramaniam about veils – brocade and … |
The Tragedy of Having to Fight Those We Love 1 June 2005 Urdu poet Tarannum Riyaz talks to PIW editor Arundhathi Subramaniam about her refusal to write a … |
‘Even in my most intense moments, I’m me.’ 1 June 2005 Kannada poet Prathibha Nandakumar, in conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam, talks about her … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - June 2005 1 June 2005 It’s not just the timbre of their voices. It’s not just the language or register, tone or cadence, … |
‘A Poetry of Masks and Games and Laughter’ 21 March 2005 Nair’s poetry does not emerge from rootedness, but from the rather febrile thing that is its … |
The Poet as Chronicler: An Overview of Contemporary Poetry in Northeast India 21 March 2005 In this essay written specially for this edition, Kynpham Sing Nongkyrnrih takes a look at poetry … |
The Thud of Boots and the Odour of Gunpowder 1 March 2005 In this conversation conducted in December 2004 for PIW, Chandrakanta Murasingh discusses a region … |
‘May All Men Become Poets, Rebels and Lovers’ 1 March 2005 In this interview held in December 2004, and published on PIW for the first time, Nilmani Phookan … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - March 2005 1 March 2005 “Unity in diversity” has got to be the most tired slogan to Indian ears. It’s been spouted by so … |
On the Music of ‘A Missing Person’: Adil Jussawalla and the Craft of Despair 1 November 2004 Poet and singer Anand Thakore explores questions of form and chaos, meaning and its collapse, in … |
Mallika Sengupta and the Poetry of Feminist Conviction 1 November 2004 In this interview with Sanjukta Dasgupta, Mallika Sengupta tackles the common allegation of being … |
Prayers in Solitude 1 November 2004 Excerpts from an email interview in which Manushya Puthiran tells what it means to write from … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - November 2004 1 November 2004 Five poets living within the uproar and stimulation of metropolitan Indian life – Debarati Mitra, … |
A Poetry Of Urban Psychopathologies 1 September 2004 In an essay written especially for the PIW, Abhay Sardesai discusses Nitin Mehta’s influence on … |
Modernism and Beyond 2 August 2004 In this interview with Makarand Paranjape, K. Satchidanandan talks about issues as diverse as … |
Cranes in the Drought 2 August 2004 In a thought-provoking conversation with poet E.V. Ramakrishnan, Kedarnath Singh reflects on a … |
Imagined Communities: Collective Aspirations in Contemporary Indian Poetry 2 August 2004 How does contemporary Indian poetry negotiate a culture of consumerism, the growing tyranny of the … |
‘The smell of coffee and the taste of olives . . .’ 2 August 2004 In conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam: Imtiaz Dharker on strip-tease and the address of home. |
Welcome to Indian poetry - August 2004 1 August 2004 Vast, varied, unruly, obstinately unmappable. That’s how the inaugural issue described the poetry … |
On Maps and Metaphors 1 May 2004 In the course of an email interview with Arundhathi Subramaniam, Keki Daruwalla answers some … |
The Maker of Myths 1 May 2004 In this essay written especially for the inaugural edition of the Indian magazine of Poetry … |
Welcome to Indian poetry - May 2004 1 May 2004 For most of the world, modern Indian literature is synonymous with the novel. Mention poetry, and … |