The fifth edition of Birdsong by Birdsong by Ranjani Sivakumar in Hyderabad celebrates birds as a muse. The two-hour concert ...

To read Shukla is to read not a version of what is already known, but what is constantly being inscribed in and erased from the margins of our consciousness.

On World Poetry Day, remembering Nazir Kazmi, one of modern Urdu ghazal’s founders.

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Unlike his famous predecessor Slim Ali, Asad Rahmani is not a household name. He does not have a Wikipedia page. And, perhaps ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

Ravens, crows, and jays are well-known raiders of eggs and nestlings in other birds’ nests. And perhaps some folks associate them with death. In the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, he looks upon the ...