Rain Poems, 2022
As you wait in anticipation
of the rain to stop,
Dressed in yearning skin,
My tired fingers are writing this poetry for someone.
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- Feb 27, 2022
The Privilege of Love, Rituparno Ghosh’s Chitrangada
In the epic tale of Mahabharata, Chitrangada was a warrior-princess who was brought up by her father, the king of Manipura, as a man....
- Feb 27, 2022
Queer Literature – through the lens of 1950s
Art and literature climb out of the womb of desperation, either to express or communicate the tides that relentlessly push you against...
- Feb 27, 2022
The landscapes of the human body, an interview with Indian artist Dheeraj Kumar
Dheeraj Kumar is a trained fashion designer turned photographer and artist from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He aspires to define his personal...
- Feb 13, 2022
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, An 18th Century Art in Motion
Coastal Brittany, France, 1770. An oceanfront castle. A secret painting. And two hearts that stretch and grow to envelop the magic of...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bastar Art- The Patrimony of Tribal Craftsmanship
Bastar Wooden Handmade Art (reflecting local mythology, rituals and folklore in exquisite shapes and forms) Bastar, a district in the...
- Jan 25, 2022
Bengal, A Martyr’s Poem
Forlorn palaces cling defiantly to their once-glorious pasts, and the half-ruined mosques and mildew-covered tombstones of East India...
- Jan 25, 2022
पधारो म्हारे देश
पधारो म्हारे देश राजस्थान को “राजाओं की भूमि” कहा जाता है। राजस्थान में कई खूबसूरत कलात्मक और सांस्कृतिक परंपराएं हैं जो...
- Jan 25, 2022
Parai – The Music of the People
Be it a silent street of a small village or a noisy neighbourhood of a town, we would’ve seen children making music instruments of empty...
- Jan 16, 2022
Delhi, An Affair with Divinity (Through The Lens of Khusrau)
Undated painting showing Amir Khusrau with Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. Photo: While I have lived in this city my whole life, my first...
- Jan 16, 2022
Kerala, My land is a woman
My land is a woman. She gets up at four in the morning every day, washes her long hair of ancestry in the Periyar, her rough hands that...
- Jan 16, 2022
Odisha, more than India’s best kept secret
A worn-out princess as I always refer to her as; my motherland precedes a royal history of the Great Kalinga War that lined the path of...
- Dec 20, 2021
Remembering a Revolution, Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy, Courtesy : The Guardian “On her neck, she wears not the thaali, that marker of marriage, but a cyanide capsule. She...
- Nov 19, 2021
“Gulp it down. You’re a bloody man” by Anurag Mohanty
Source: The Guardian / International Men’s Day Poetry Dear men, When I was 6, a child that picked up a barbie to play with instead of a...
- Nov 14, 2021
Sudha Murthy – The Art of Giving
Sudha Murthy One of my teachers used to say, people cultivate the habit of reading by the essence of their first read book. I was a...
- Nov 13, 2021
Walk down the memory lane, four poems on childhood
Eight and half sweet smells from my childhood by Ishika Chaturvedi Henri Lebasque Children with spring flowers 1. petrichor. i have spent...
- Nov 1, 2021
The Painted Poems of William Blake, and an Era of Changing Colours
With the publication of lyrical ballads, the Romantic movement started in England. It was a period of transition and experiment. Through...
- Oct 19, 2021
Poems India Newsletter
We, at Poems India, are as pleased as excited to finally announce the launch of our new email newsletter. Our very first issue will be...
- Oct 10, 2021
4 poems that highlight the importance of mental health
In honour of World Mental Health Day, we urge you to take a minute of action in whatever way makes the most sense to you. We’ve pulled...
- Oct 2, 2021
Handpicked poems from Sept 2021
Handpicked poems curated by the editors from August archives (in no particular order). Ashes, ashes we all fall down by Khatija Khan Read...
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