Poetry as Socio-proctology

I don't normally like translations that employ contemporary idioms, agendas or controversies to 'sex up' translations of classic...

Much of the piquancy of courtly poetry arises from word play involving elite customs and modes of speech. The fact that courtiers often empl...

A couplet from a ghazal Ghalib wrote at the age of 19. kāfī hai nishānī tirā chhalle kā nah denā ḳhālī mujhe dikhlā ke bah vaqt-e safar angu...

For a scholarly article on the difficulties of translating Dard click here. An interesting idea in an essay found here  concerns the distin...

In 'the Secret Miracle', Borges writes of the first volume of a fictional poet's Vindication of Eternity as being'...a histo...

The doctrine of 'command responsibility' holds that that the person holding command is responsible for the actions of his subordinat...

Entrusted with funds for Defense procurement, the Poet/Saint journeyed to a certain place where, moved by devotion to God, he forgot his mis...