In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

Threatened by English and Hinglish, Hindi is regaining its lost value and more work is being done in the language. Varun says, “I have grown up reading Hindi poems and wanted to use them in my films.

I recently studied Omprakash Valmiki’s poem Thakur Ka Kuan (1991) in its original Hindi text as part of my Diploma of Languages course at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. As a student ...

In his novels, poems and stories, Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla excelled at portraits of simple but emotionally complex ...