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Topic: Poet

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

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

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

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

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’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

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

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

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

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

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.

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.