Mahashivaratri is celebrated every year on the thirteenth night and fourteenth day of the month of Phalgun in the Hindu calendar which falls in February or March Unlike most Hindu festivals which are ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

In January this year, Sharjeel Imam, a PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal ... characters that I have encountered in a long time. In poetry, I am going through the three volumes of Akbar Illahabadi ...

It doesn’t matter if you aren’t a poet. It doesn’t even matter if you think you don’t like poetry. The first time I went off autopilot, I was in the grocery store. Here’s what came of that.

Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of the disease, for instance, and exceptions often had a purpose external to ...

Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the young, the sick and the dying, and the fleeting moments she observed. It is about the beauty of ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of ...

Calligraphy is one of the most stark and straightforward forms of artistic tenor, hence an anonymous person describes it as: “More powerful than all poetry, more pervasive than all science ...

The two-mile procession featured colorful flags in honor of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Islam's prophet, and recitations of religious poetry. "We are here as lovers of Imam Hussain, lovers of ...

There even was a Golconda school of poetry; early poems in Dakhni and ... but it may have been used as a water source too, in memory of Imam Hussain. However, not enough justice has been done ...

Hazrat Meer Syed Ali Manjan Shattari’s poetry is a good example of syncretism taking place ... whose family was believed to have relations with the sacred house of Hazrat Imam Hasan, the grandson of ...

Music and poetry have long been part of dissent, a tool of resistance, and an art form to express concerns, jubilation, remembrance, and heartbreaks. They are worthy forms of summation for many… ...