Poetry - Different Truths

April 24, 2016
The Significant League
Poem

Anthology of Nonsense Verse

The Significant League (TSL) and Different Truths (DT) together offer nonsense verse, 73 limericks, and nine other poems, one be each poet, featuring 82 poets. This anthology of the TSL has...

April 14, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Criticism

The Bard and the Baul

Madhumita translates a poem of Tagore, whom she calls, Baul. She quotes a few sonnets of Shakespeare, who is better known as the Bard. Separated by continents and centuries, the...

April 10, 2016
The Significant League
Poem, Special Needs

A Poetic Journey: An Insight into the world of Autism from the Poet’s Point of View

Compiled by ...

March 21, 2016
Smita Agarwal
Poem

Mofussil Mummies

Smita shows us a slice of life in a laid back mofussil on the World Poetry Day. At seventy five and eighty, Under garden umbrellas They sit on the...

March 21, 2016
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Poem

Punch/ I Kissed a Girl, I Liked it!

On World Poetry Day, we present are two love poems of Ampat. The first is tongue-in-cheek, and the second, rich in symbolism. Punch Love is balding Growing a paunch Writes...

February 21, 2016
Ratan Bhattacharjee
Criticism

Love, Seduction and Sex: Three Sirens of Literature

Renowned writers have dealt with love, seduction and sex aesthetically and sensitively. Ratan takes a close look into the so-called ‘Victorian taboos’ and shows us how these ‘three sirens’ of literature...

January 11, 2016
Vibhuti Bhandarkar
Books

Deluge of Emotions in the Poems of Tikuli

Vibhuti reviews Tikuli’s book, Collection of Chaos. The reviewer says that the poet has ventured to utilise very different forms of poetry, and yet maintained her voice in it....

November 29, 2015
Joyce Yarrow
Music

A Song Parts the Veil of History

Convivencia is the coexistence of different faiths in Spain, in early eighth century till the expulsion of Jews in 1492. It celebrates the common ancestry of Judaism, Islam and Christianity....

November 21, 2015
Michele Baron
Books

A Confluence of Sensibilities

Michele reviews, ‘The Significant Anthology’, edited by Reena Prasad and Dr Ampat Koshy. A 300- page compendium, it showcases 176 contributing authors. Its three sections, poetry, prose and long poem, contains ‘secrets of its...

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