India publishes poetry in more than 24 recognised languages every single year. The Sahitya Akademi, the country's national academy of letters, gives out annual awards for poetry in languages ranging ...

Do you remember reading a book and losing all sense of time? Isn't reading just magical? Many famous names, such as Ruskin ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey brings Homer's epic back into the spotlight. But who was Homer? The ancient poet may have been blind, may have been several people, or may never have existed as a ...

PLAYS in India often seem to Westerners like pretty long-winded affairs. Well, as a matter of fact, they are. What many Westerners really can’t quite grasp, though, is that Indians like them that way ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...