T.R. Shankar Raman’s revised essay collection blends field biology with empathy, reviving a rare, reflective tradition of ...

Kashmir's Sufiyana Music seeks UNESCO recognition, highlighting its rich cultural heritage, spiritual depth, and unique ...

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Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Lawful and the Awful: Quirky Tales from the World of Law, Tushar Mehta, Rupa ...

Life with chronic illness is painted with imagery of nuthatches and aspen trees in Jason Purcell’s new book of poems.

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles ...

If you’ve read any commentary about younger people, none of the following statistics will surprise you. Approximately 19% of ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

This time, I will introduce various couplets and parallel phrases. First, I will start with a couplet that I personally like. There is a Yongji Temple at Yanzi Ji (in the Qixia District of present-day ...

Every June 21, the world pauses to celebrate music and its power to move and unite people across borders. And few artists embody that spirit quite like Swanand Kirkire. The 56-year-old can make you ...

Spoken word poetry is very popular and there are a number of well-known spoken word poets. As well as winning poetry awards, spoken word poet Kae Tempest has also been nominated for music awards ...

Have we made a schoolboy error? When we think of World War One we picture weary soldiers ‘coughing like hags’ cursing as they wade through ‘the sludge’ of the trenches. We hear the ‘guttering’ and ...