NEWPORT NEWS – He’s a meditation master who teaches religion, but when Graham M. Schweig ponders the ways other translators have treated his beloved Bhagavad Gita, inner peace yields to bloodthirsty ...

Leeladhar Mandloi’s Hindi poem, ‘Ve Laut Nahīm Rahe’ (‘They Are Not Returning’), captures this tragedy with startling precision. Written before the COVID-19 lockdowns, the poem has become painfully ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

TT Srinath’s new book of poems invites readers to pause, feel, and reconsider the way they live His recently released book of poems, titled The Keys We Keep Hidden: Wisdom and Verse to Open Doors, is ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. South Korean writer Baek Se-hee, who found readers worldwide for her memoir I Want to Die but I Want To Eat Tteokbokki (Bloomsbury), has ...