The poems, written in Marathi, speak of forests, displacement, democracy, culture, exploitation, and resilience.

Songs play an important part of making a cinema hit. Songs with meaningful lyrics and good music attract the listeners. The trend of old Marathi poems is now being made into peppy songs. And one of ...

Amitabh Bachchan honored Lata Mangeshkar by reciting a Marathi poem, receiving the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award. He acknowledged her influence on his international performances and expressed ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the country’s open grasslands are not degraded forests but ancient ecosystems in ...

Celebrated Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is all set to lend his aura to the cause of women’s rights by reciting a Marathi poem for director-actor Farhan Akhtar‘s Men against Rape and ...

“Why does poverty enter my house, and not that pucca house there?” asked 60-year-old Mohammad Naikavadi. “Well, my next poem is on poverty, my close friend.” A retired loom worker from Rendal, a ...

Seven years ago, Yojna Yadav (37), a journalist with a regional newspaper began writing poems on Facebook. Thanks to Facebook that her first book of poems is now published, and she has dedicated it to ...

Not only did Father Thomas Stephens – an English Jesuit – spend his entire life in Goa, he also wrote the first Konkani grammar book and an epic 11,000-line Marathi poem, now regarded as a classic.