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Topic: Poet

Pakistan’s Jaun Elia was more than a tragic poet. He was an atheist, Marxist & philosopher

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Jaun Elia’s cultural impact has only grown after his death. Critics and poetry enthusiasts see him as someone who challenged the notions of traditional Urdu poetry.

Indian artists must get ready for a new freedom movement. Ashok Vajpeyi’s rallying cry

Krishan Murari -
Poet Ashok Vajpeyi delivered the lecture ‘Our Arts: Our Society’ in memory of Kapila Vatsyayan, the grand matriarch of cultural studies and a preeminent practitioner of the arts in India.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt—the playwright, poet who brought a renaissance in Bengali literature

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Influenced by Shakespeare and the Romantic writers, Dutt introduced blank verse and European sonnets to Bengali literature.

Sahir Ludhianvi was the only lyricist who fought for Bollywood poets

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas -
KA Abbas' 'Sone Chandi Ke Buth', edited and translated by Syeda Hameed and Sukhpreet Kahlon, explores Bollywood and the lives of its biggest personalities.

Subscriber writes: poem on struggles of the transgender community

Shivani Dhama -
Shivani Dhama’s poem talks about the flawed notions and perceptions society has about transgenders.

Mohammad Iqbal, who wrote ‘saare Jahan se achha’, made modernity a dirty word for Muslims

Najmul Hoda -
Iqbal’s poetry was not art for art’s sake. He saw himself as a millenarian messenger for the restoration of Islamic supremacy.

Left, Mamata, Vajpayee – Sankha Ghosh and his poems could stand up to anyone, any party

Biswajit Ray -
Sankha Ghosh’s death has left a vacuum in Bengal’s civil society movement when it needed him most.

‘There is need to idiot-proof everything’ — Gulzar says climate of fear looms over art today

Shubhangi Misra -
At ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, Gulzar talks about his new book 'A Poem a Day', a compilation of 365 poems by by 279 poets in 34 languages from India.

Nissim Ezekiel, a pioneer of Indian-English poetry, was bound by layers of his identity

Pia Krishnankutty -
Nissim Ezekiel, the poet, playwright, critic and teacher often wrestled with ideas of belonging and Indianness.

Kavi Pradeep — the patriotic poet whose songs moved Nehru to tears

Kairvy Grewal -
The writer of Aao Bachhon Tumhe Dikhayen and Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon, Kavi Pradeep was a celebrated poet-lyricist whose words gave the British a hard time.
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Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

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