“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu with aplomb, calling out to his ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, 2025, conversations revolved around the urgent question: in the time of climate change and ...

Outside the sky was bright blue with sunshine and the air a brisk 20 degrees. Inside the South Dakota Capitol, hundreds of ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

For the last three years, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, has been performed ...

Grammy-winning artist and New Orleans native Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex watched the ceremony, cheering on the performers and competitors when they took to the stage.

Veer Munshi on his first solo in the US, why his practice is built on Kashmir—both in terms of subject and belonging—and the ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

For Christians, Christmas marks the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God, the King of kings. It may be hard to believe, but the celebration of Christmas was hit and miss in the American colonies.