When was it, exactly, that poetry got a bad rap? Surely not during the roadside Burma Shave days of: “Does your husband … Misbehave … Grunt and grumble … Rant ...

As 9,015 entries flooded the poetry, 詩, category of this newspaper’s New Year literary contest, which closed on the 8th of this month, breaking the all-time record, such questions arose within and ...

In dinon garche dakhan mein hai badi qadr-e-sukhan, Kaun jaaye ‘Zauq’ par Dilli ki galliyan chhor kar (These days poetry commands great respect in the Deccan. But who, O Zauq, can leave the streets of ...