So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

For the first time ever, life-changing surgeries are being performed at the newly commissioned Annai District Hospital in Region Nine, the Ministry of Health said yesterday in a release.

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

By McKinley Franklin Johnny Tillotson, the 1960s chart-topping and Grammy-nominated singer of “Poetry in Motion,” died Tuesday. He was 86. “It is with a broken heart that I write to let you ...

Tamil Nadu Budget 2025 LIVE: During the budget speech, Tamil Nadu FM Thangam quoted the famous poem of Robert Frost titled, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. He referred to the iconic line ...

Chennai: A teacher of a popular school here was suspended allegedly for hitting a class three student for failing to recite a poem in Hindi. The management on Monday said the teacher has been ...

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

I was hauled up by one traditional Tamil scholar, who argued that Tholkappiyam ... but I can say that all the ‘aham’ (love) poems that depict life as found in the Sangam classics, thereby ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, in a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...