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Verse city: Mumbai’s poetic tradition is having a moment

Suchita Parikh-Mundul whose debut poetry collection ‘Absurd Theatre’ released this year, says social media has helped her find a community of poets she can discuss her work with. (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

Updated 28 days ago

Why the creative economy begins with opportunity

Poetry

Published 29 days ago

Delhiwale: Every inch a poet

Delhiwale: Every inch a poet

Published 49 days ago

Delhiwale: This way to Ballimaran

This early morning, all the chashma shops are lying shuttered. (HT Photo)

Published 65 days ago

Book Box: How to grow your own poem

The Table from ‘How to Grow Your Own Poem’

Updated 105 days ago

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on April 10 in Delhi, Noida and Gurugram

Gram it: A view of the clouds as seen hovering over the skies at Safdarjung Tomb on Thursday. After the fresh spell of rains and storms, as predicted by IMD, the weather in the Capital is mostly sunny. But some are still feeling the chilly winds as April recently witnessed its coldest day in three years on Tuesday!

Published 108 days ago

How Gunjan Saini tunrns everyday emotions into deeply relatable poetry

Gunjan Saini turns everyday emotions to relatable poetry.

Published 108 days ago

Woman quits KPMG Singapore job, becomes poet in Mumbai: ‘I was too…’

Namrata Yadav is a 28-year-old consultant-turned-writer.

Updated 123 days ago

Review: The Essential Mir by Anisur Rahman

A portrait of Mir Taqi Mir circa 1786. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published 149 days ago

Get to know... Nisschal Zaveri

Singer and composer Nisschal Zaveri wishes there were 36 hours in the day.

Updated 156 days ago

Weekend events you can’t miss in Patna (Feb 20-22)

At Patna Open Mic by Live Stories, participants present original poetry, monologues, and short narratives before a live audience. (Representative photo)

Published 157 days ago

A conversation on poetry and walking

Schoolgirls walking much like the poet Sivakami Velliangiri and her friends did. “ As a schoolgirl, walking was a collective activity – a group of girls coming into their own, forging bonds of womanhood, and concocting stories about the unknown...” (Shutterstock)

Updated 159 days ago

Roundabout I Spelling out ‘ishq’ as the spring breaks through

And more so in spring, so top of the charts is a novel by Tarana Husain Khan titled ‘The Courtesan, Her lover and I’, published by Hatchet. (HT Photo)

Published 168 days ago

Weekend events you can’t miss in Patna (Jan 23-26)

Artist Eva Malhotra is showcasing unique installations in an exhibition titled Call to the Mystic at the Bihar Museum. (Incredible India website)

Published 185 days ago

Sahir Ludhianvi's journey, iconic songs brought alive in theatrical tribute

Rupali Chandra, Sudharshan Mani, Aftab Alam and Chandra Shekhar Varma in role of Amrita Pritam, Sahir Ludhianvi, Javed Akhtar and narrator during the play Sahir: Har Ik Pal Ka Shayar staged at UP Sangeet Natak Academy in Lucknow

Updated 189 days ago

Book Box: Jaipur Lit Fest, from fight-or-flight to the comfort of books

Jeet Thayil (left) in conversation with William Sieghart

Updated 189 days ago

Weekend events you can’t miss in Delhi-NCR (Jan 16-18)

Slovenian musician and puppeteer Matija Solc is known for his storytelling and will be performing at the OddBird theatre. (Redbull website)

Published 192 days ago

Delhiwale: Barbershop Homer

Known more commonly in the locality as Kaaliya, Asif (left) prefers the nickname to his original name. (HT Photo)

Updated 192 days ago

World Hindi Day | Poet Nayab Midha: The day I wrote in Hindi, the world changed

Poetess Nayab Midha poses for HT City for an exclusive shoot at Baansera Park.

Published 197 days ago

Renee Nicole Good's award-winning poem goes viral; ODU links surface

A demonstrator holds a sign referring to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on January 7.

Published 199 days ago

Poetry Pick One for Eunice

116pp, <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>499; HarperCollins (Courtesy the publisher)

Published 226 days ago

Actor-writer Paritosh Tripathi to launch his third book Ghanghor Ishq

Paritosh Tripathi's new book Ghanghor Ishq will be released on December 2

Updated 240 days ago

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 13 November 2025

Gram it: Those wanting to visit must note that the Red Fort complex has been cordoned off; after the blast in Old Delhi on Monday. Here's a glimpse of some security personnel guarding the monument.

Published 256 days ago

Delhiwale: ‘Climbed the tea, drank the stairs’

“I can now engage in full-time writing,” she Tiash, sitting at her usual window-side table in a Gurugram café. (HT)

Published 304 days ago

Bialik in translation: Peter Cole and the politics of poetic memory

A long wagon train of rural Jewish refugees in Rowno (Rivne), northwestern Ukraine. From 1903-1906 pogroms left thousands of Jews dead and caused migration to North America. Hayim Nahman Bialik’s In the City of Slaughter (1904) is a Hebrew poem about the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, which borders north western Ukraine and is today in Moldova. (Shutterstock)

Published 304 days ago

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 21 September 2025

Catch It Live on Sunday, 21 September 2025.

Published 309 days ago

Book review: Khushboo Patani pays an ode to the female spirit in her letters

Wellness expert and former Army Major Khushboo Patani has come up with her new book, Letters From The Womb.

Published 310 days ago

Dayar-e-Ishq Festival: An evening of music, poetry and devotion

Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan and Minu Bakshi

Published 313 days ago

Shloka Shankar: “Nothing is more fulfilling than being a literary midwife”

Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press (Courtesy the subject)

Updated 314 days ago

In Dylan Thomas’s Mousehole, ‘the loveliest village in England’

A view of the harbour at Mousehole (Visit Cornwall)

Updated 319 days ago

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