Well-known poet and Padma Shri awardee Dr Surendra Dubey, who was known for his humour and sharp satire, passed away following cardiac arrest at a government hospital here in Chhattisgarh, on Thursday ...

The 71-year-old was undergoing treatment at the Advanced Cardiac Institute in Raipur. His demise has left the literary ...

An offensive 20-year-old rap song may land a Kazakh satirist in jail for seven years. But there’s more to the case than a rude song.

The Supreme Court on March 28 said that literature, including poetry and satire, makes human life ‘more meaningful.’ The top court observed this while quashing a First Information Report (FIR ...

Amid row over comedian Kunal Kamra's Eknath Shinde joke, Supreme Court on Friday said literature, including poetry, drama, films, satire, and art make life of human beings more meaningful and ...

Also: The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump—his quotes and tweets rearranged into comic poetry. And in the sky: a 20-foot diaper-clad effigy of Trump hovering above protesting crowds. Such humor ...

Reading a satirical piece of writing is like chopping off an onion. When you cut off an onion, tears trickle down your cheeks. Yet you smile. Similarly, when you read a satirical novel, a poem, or ...

Satire: Stop funding the humanities. ... I’m always sitting there in class, thinking, "This poem is confusing." Do you remember having to read a book in class and then write about it?

He said, “Satire brings laughter to the face while also touching the heart. It is a force that instigates change with a smile, a treasure trove of wisdom hidden behind humour.” ...

Others, like today’s Poem of the Day, were simply bitter. “Wedlock: A Satire” is a comic poem, with its hyperbolic rants against the tyranny of marriage and its gratuitous swipes at the Jesuits. In ...