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Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi said he was recently asked to avoid reciting poems critical of the government at an event. Writer Ashutosh Bhardwaj noted that organisers of a Nagpur fest removed four names from the guest list after 'warnings'.
The 2023 instalment of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam 2023 is set to begin with auditions on Friday. The annual spoken word championship has returned to its traditional in-person, pre-covid schedule leading up to the annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest, which will run from April 28-30. A media release said, "The finals will once
A married couple left their Nazimuddin Road residence to visit their uncle’s home in Dhaka University area. When they arrived at DU’s Shaheed Minar premises, a group of 10 to 12 men, led by DU BCL activists, intercepted them, mercilessly beat them, stole Tk 22,000 and their ATM card, and left.
Accolades have poured in for Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr, the Guyanese-born UWI, St Augustine academic, early poet, critic and thinker who died just as the season of calypso starts, when it was he who made that popular genre his own critical and theoretical territory. He was the man who argued that calypso was on a
Children are great eco-influencers, she says ahead of sold out Emirates Litfest session