‘We are Asomiya’: Miya Poetry and Maulana Bande Ali
Miya poetry is a genre of resistance poetry – one where Bengali Muslims in Assam reclaim the racial slur ‘miya’ that has long been used to other them as outsiders or foreigne
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Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems on Ordinary Human Expression
Nissim Ezekiel (1924 – 2004), an Indian born poet of Jewish descent, has often been referred to as the “father of post-independence Indian verse in English”. Two of his most
‘A Ploy To Trap Me’: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani On Her Marriage
As one of the first political leaders and activists of her time, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872-1945) was a woman as fierce as they come. She was involved in the freedom struggle an
An Artist’s Vocabulary: F. N. Souza’s, Nirvana of a Maggot
Francis Newton Souza (1924 – 2002), often referred to as F. N. Souza or just Souza, is one of the most well-known Indian artists in the West. Interestingly, he first caught t