India's transition from black and white to colour, from simple clothes to branded fancy clothes and from regional languages to Queen's English, thanks to globalisation. However, it has flip side too - ...

On Tuesday, the state education department launched the first album which sets Marathi poetry to music. The department plans to do a similar thing for poems of other languages and multiplication ...

Marathi Bhasha Diwas is celebrated on February 27 every year. This year marks 112th birth anniversary of renowned poet Vishnū Vāman Shirwādkar.(modeindia) Marathi Bhasha Diwas is celebrated on ...

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 ...

Publishing poetry is a movement. We want the poetry circle to grow. Today, poetry has a strong presence in India because poetry collections are coming out in larger numbers than ever before. As a ...

First there was the Prabhat film Sant Tukaram. I saw it as a child. For years afterwards Vishnupant Pagnis who played Tukaram was the saint incarnate for me. My favourite song was “Aadhi beej ekale”.

Announcing the country's highest literary honour in New Delhi on Sunday, the selection board said Karandikar was "perhaps the most experimental and most comprehensive of all modern Marathi poets". The ...

This Sunday evening, a group of artistes will make an attempt to present poetry in a unique form to the audience. The poems - all in Marathi language - will be presented through Indian classical ...

The rich tradition of Marathi poetry was celebrated in Navi Mumbai through the Para-Kavya Vachan (Recitation of Others’ Poetry) competition, organized as part of the Classical Marathi Language Week by ...

Renowned Marathi humour poet Dr Mirza Rafi Ahmed Baig passed away in Amravati at the age of 68 after a prolonged illness. Known for his influential performances, popular column and more than six ...