The World in Verse
Poetry Columns & Literary Reflections
Welcome to my corner of contemplation, where poetry meets the pulse of everyday life. Through my columns and literary features, I explore how verse illuminates our shared human experience.
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Deccan Herald (JAN 24 – SEP 25) Weekly explorations of contemporary poetry, literary trends, and the intersection of art with society. Each piece invites readers to see the world through the transformative lens of poetry.
The Hindu MetroPlus (2014-2015) A beloved column that brought poetry into daily conversation, making literature accessible to diverse readerships.
Hinged on poetry
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Margaret Atwood: magical discoveries
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Sarah Kay: honest and eloquent
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Join us, won’t you?
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Here and there with Vikram Seth
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Nonsense, anyone?
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Dear Dr. Maya Angelou
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Running on Poetry: Love after Love
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A poet cannot live by craft alone
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How do poets interpret wars?
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The lyric of liberation
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The romance of poetry
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On Teachers’ Day Dr Srividya Sivakumar shares some inspiring poetry about
education and teachers
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Running on Poetry: Words on celluloid
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A collection of poems written by the nearly 80-year-old Ranjani Neriya
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Form in verse, verse in form
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Sensuous, soulful
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The magic in the metre
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The mistress of making verse
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Acrostics fun with poets like Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth
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Poetry beyond punctuation
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Many-layered muliebrity
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The nursery rhyme speaks volumes
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Running on Poetry: Making it new with Moore
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Celebrating with Sudeep Sen
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Running on poetry: A mind to kiss
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Running on Poetry: Column Mark Strand
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The sensitive revolutionary
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Running on Poetry: Advertising our importance
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New beginning, glad tidings
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Disconnecting to connect
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Running with Poetry: Column Travels with Family
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Dear Mr. Perumal Murugan
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Protest poetry
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Travels with Arundhathi
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Men about women
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Women in love, on love
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Empowering poetry
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Running on Poetry: What women ought to do
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Running on poetry: Women’s Day and all that jazz
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Jade, sage green, pristine
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World Poetry Day 2015
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Robert Frost: pastoral paean
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Running on poetry: Old friends and new memories
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Students and lessons
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Saree Jahan Se Accha
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Shakespeare and friends
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Dignity and defiance
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Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry
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Fifty ways to say poetry
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Poetry readings and poetic evenings
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Singing and celebrating the body and soul
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The hidden dangers of teaching poetry
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The verse of William Butler Yeats
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Connecting the world, one poem at a time
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The bare bones with Lucille Clifton
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Wisawa Szymborska: the extraordinary in the ordinary
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Speaking up for rap
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The radical relevance of Wole Soyinka
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Much ado about a dog
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The irreplaceable loss of Dr. Abdul Kalam
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Poet Bei Dao
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A tribute to Ogden Nash
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Dorothy Parker and her poetry
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Thom Gunn and his philosophical poetry
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Thoughtful on Teachers’ Day
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Dilip Chitre’s poetry
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The radiant gists of William Carlos Williams
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The erudite imaginings of T.S. Eliot
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Peace and poetry
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Melody of the mountains
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Reminiscing Urdu poetry
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Remembering Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath
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Ezra Pound and modern poetry
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Poetry of hope
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A close look at Tabish Khair’s world of words
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The wounded world
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Music is poetry, poetry music
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No need to be ashamed
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Running on poetry: a Paley-Dickinsonian December
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Vinita Agrawal's poetry is about emotions and instances that everyone can
identify with
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A season of change
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