Aranya Johar is something of a viral sensation in her native India. A YouTube video of her reciting her poem “A Brown Girl’s Guide to Gender,” which tackled misogyny, rape and cat-calling, has gained ...
Joining the ranks of young people around challenging injustice is Mumbai-based poetry collective UnErase Poetry with its recently launched campaign titled “52 seconds for free speech” (video above).
Ramneek Singh and Hasan Baldiwala share a heartfelt poetry ’Pichhle August’, which talks about the loss and suffering of citizens who reside in Jammu and Kashmir. The poetry was released today on the ...
The year is 2030. The sea levels are slowly rising and storms gather over a city, presumably Mumbai. A couple in love “unmindful of the world” and “lost in each other” find themselves caught in this ...
A 2018 report by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights estimated that nearly 40% of adolescent girls in the age group of 15-18 years drop out of school and college in India. Of the ...
Simar Singh is all of 18 and based in Mumbai. He has just passed his school-leaving exams and is waiting to join college. Last year, he floated an online poetry platform called UnErase Poetry. Between ...
The spoken word poetry circuit in Mumbai reels under shock as one of its foremost faces stands accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment by then-underage girls. The budding spoken word poetry ...