Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Indian actress and poetry presenter Spruha Joshi will be part of a poetry and music program Saturday in Columbus. Columbus Ganesh Mandal is hosting a playful Marathi poetry recital program, ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

New research reveals western India's savannas are ancient natural ecosystems. Historical texts from the 13th century describe ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - On a recent balmy evening at a Mumbai sports ground, writer Varun Grover, a pink flower tucked behind his ear, read his new poem to thousands of people protesting against a ...

Poetry in India has always been more than art; it has been emotion, philosophy, and rebellion wrapped in rhythm. From the soulful verses of Gulzar, the depth of Javed Akhtar, and the timeless ...

PLAYS in India often seem to Westerners like pretty long-winded affairs. Well, as a matter of fact, they are. What many Westerners really can’t quite grasp, though, is that Indians like them that way ...

Delhi Poetry Festival is committed to preserving, reviving, and celebrating the cultural and poetic heritage of the historical city of Delhi. This year Delhi Poetry Festival will be celebrating poetry ...

In 2019, about 17 per cent of India’s land was officially classified as ‘wasteland’. But many of these are ecologically ...

Outlook took a deep dive in the language of Poetry with its 'Poetry as evidence Issue' in which it presented a selection of ...

In the poem “Not One Fish,” Indian Jewish author Zilka Joseph shares the story of how her community, the Bene Israel, connected with the wider Jewish world. Legend has it that in the second millennium ...