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.
- Feb 27
- 4 min
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....
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- Feb 27
- 5 min
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...
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- Feb 27
- 7 min
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...
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- Feb 13
- 3 min
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...
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- Feb 13
- 6 min
मूनलाइट, स्वयं की ख़ोज
मूनलाइट फ़िल्म पोस्टर : साभार IMDB सिनेमा हम सभी के जीवन का एक बहुत अहम हिस्सा है। प्रत्यक्ष या अप्रत्यक्ष रूप से हमारे जीवन में सिनेमा की...
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- Jan 25
- 2 min
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...
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- Jan 25
- 3 min
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...
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- Jan 25
- 4 min
पधारो म्हारे देश
पधारो म्हारे देश राजस्थान को “राजाओं की भूमि” कहा जाता है। राजस्थान में कई खूबसूरत कलात्मक और सांस्कृतिक परंपराएं हैं जो...
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- Jan 25
- 4 min
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...
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- Jan 16
- 9 min
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...
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- Jan 16
- 5 min
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...
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- Jan 16
- 7 min
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...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
“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...
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- Nov 14, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Nov 13, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Oct 10, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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