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Master Poet Who Wove Hindustani Poetry With Hindi Film Songs

Master Poet Who Wove Hindustani Poetry With Hindi Film Songs

19 March 2023

An artist with his friend- a lantern

A Letter To A Lantern

In his work ‘Don’t Talk Ill About Others’, Kashmiri artist Nasir Hassan is seen carrying a lantern as a way of finding his lost world

13 March 2023

Lingering salt in claustrophobic sea...

Poems: The Scream And Lemongrass Tea

Melting grassroots/in an extrovert honey/her passionate lips...like the cappadocia balloons- primrose, pastel pink.

11 March 2023

Poem: Void By Boudhayan Mukherjee

Poem: Void By Boudhayan Mukherjee

Poet Boudhayan Mukherjee writes a poem for Outlook.

19 March 2023

Many roads, different routes, some taken and few forsaken...

Of Roads, Love And The Fall

Time flies...Has it made me any wise?

11 March 2023

The Poet’s Breath by Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca

The Poet’s Breath

Read a poem by Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca on International Women’s Day 2023.

08 March 2023

A rusted bell

Poem: Honk Honk

The writer Sandeep Jain writes under the pen name Timeless Poetry. He is a real estate broker to whom words come in an endless flow.

18 March 2023

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Try to give rebirth

Poem: The Poet's Breath

I am she who/Born free in the land of the free/Speaks for them.

07 March 2023

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05 March 2023
Poem: Eating Together

Poem: Eating Together

Shantashree Mohanty writes a poem about the experience of eating together with family.


05 March 2023
Book Review: Ananya Chatterjee’s Barefoot On Splintered Glass

Book Review: Ananya Chatterjee’s Barefoot On Splintered Glass

Using the tropes of the seasons in her poems, Ananya Chatterjee has dealt with human relationships and nature interchangeably. The robin-abandoned Gulmohar and...


05 March 2023
Short Poem: The Family On TV

Short Poem: The Family On TV

So at what point did you realise, ​​that you’re not the family on TV?


05 March 2023
Remembering Rehman Rahi, The Literary Genius Of Kashmir

Remembering Rehman Rahi, The Literary Genius Of Kashmir

Rahi cannot be dismissed outright as he was a literary genius who worked tirelessly to promote the Kashmiri language and shape the identity of Kashmiris. With...


19 February 2023
Another Day In My Life As A Failing Writer

Another Day In My Life As A Failing Writer

Shantashree Mohanty writes about a day in her life as a writer. She receives the advice towards the end of the day that it’s better to be a failing writer...


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19 February 2023
Poem: Getting It Right By Vibha Batra

Poem: Getting It Right By Vibha Batra

Poet Vibha Batra writes a poem for Outlook on getting it right in life.


18 February 2023
Short Poem: God

Short Poem: God

Eventually, my ideas of an all-powerful yet inherently benevolent entity called God turned into the mythical boulder crushing the shape of my Sisyphean mind.


13 February 2023
फैज़ साहब पर कुछ ख़्याल

फैज़ साहब पर कुछ ख़्याल

फैज़ साहब साहित्य को साहित्य तक सीमित नही रखते है। उसे...


05 February 2023
Ten Poems By Uday Shankar Ojha

Ten Poems By Uday Shankar Ojha

Poet Uday Shankar Ojha writes 10 poems for Outlook.


29 January 2023
Four Rhapsodic Poems By Simrita Dhir

Four Rhapsodic Poems By Simrita Dhir

Poet Simrita Dhir dives into childhood and teenage, compiling sights, smells, tastes, sounds and fantasies into four confine-breaking poems, free of structure...


29 January 2023
Some Random Thoughts On American Literature And Tagore

Some Random Thoughts On American Literature And Tagore

America or Europe had nobody comparable with Tagore in the holistic completeness of multivarious art forms. Tagore had said if not for anything else, his songs...


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15 January 2023
A Series Of Poems That Smell Of Snowflakes

A Series Of Poems That Smell Of Snowflakes

Poet Moumita Alam writes five poems on winter.


14 January 2023
Poem: Outside, I Was Told

Poem: Outside, I Was Told

Dr Huzaifa Pandit translates a poem by Abdur Rehman Rahi, one of the foremost exponents of Kashmiri literature who died earlier this week at the age of 98.


14 January 2023
Poem: Spring And The Artisan

Poem: Spring And The Artisan

Dr Huzaifa Pandit translates a poem by Abdur Rehman Rahi, one of the foremost exponents of Kashmiri literature who died earlier this week at the age of 98.


24 December 2022
When A Poet Celebrates Ambiguity That Comes With Being Bilingual

When A Poet Celebrates Ambiguity That Comes With Being Bilingual

A bilingual poet, straddling the English and Odia worlds, finds that never giving up on writing kept him afloat


19 December 2022
Resistance Poetry: Ukrainian Poets Make Poetry The Voice Of Freedom

Resistance Poetry: Ukrainian Poets Make Poetry The Voice Of Freedom

Poetry, with its maximum frankness and emotionality, breaks all the check valves that allow you to experience the war as a huge trauma and not go crazy


17 December 2022
Short Poems

Short Poems

Here are four poems of Wilson Kateel that have been translated by Kamalakar Kadave.


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