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 ...
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 ...
If you are a man in India, you would have probably been told by your friends and relatives, "Mard ko dard nahi hota hai" (Men don't feel any pain). 16-year-old Simar Singh, founder and curator of ...
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 ...