TopicPoet

Topic: Poet

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

Debdutta Chakraborty - 25 January, 2023

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 - 25 September, 2022

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 - 27 August, 2022

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 - 9 November, 2021

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 - 24 April, 2021

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 - 30 December, 2020

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 - 16 December, 2019

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 - 11 December, 2019

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.

Akbar Allahabadi, the satirist known for adding humorous touch to themes of love & politics

Taran Deol - 16 November, 2019

Urdu poet Akbar Allahabadi, born Syed Akbar Hussain, was bestowed with the title Lisan-ul-Asr or 'Voice of the Times'.

Dancing with Agha Shahid Ali: Why the poet will always be my muse

Kamla K Kapur - 4 June, 2019

Author and poet Kamla Kapur recounts growing up with Shahid, the Phoenix in a coffin of light.

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