Literature for peace
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‘I am a house of wounds / All my rooms are filled with blood’: Poems recalling the horrors of war
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‘Back from the trenches, more dead than alive’: A poet urges us to reconsider the true cost of war
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‘We have no gift to set a statesman right’: Three poems by WB Yeats about the mindlessness of wars
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‘Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were’: A young soldier-poet denounces war
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Pico Iyer’s ‘Autumn Light’ woos you to believe and yet, to let go eventually
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‘In the days of war, the sun does not rise, it is always night’: Two poems on what war brings us
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‘Imagine a world where tanks can be libraries’ (as John Lennon might have): Two poems by Nabina Das
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‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
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‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal
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‘How were we done for in this war?’: Three poems by women poets from Sri Lanka ask the same question
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War and death: Two poems by WB Yeats and Rudyard Kipling that remind us of the futility
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‘Why are you fighting this war?’: Satyajit Ray’s famous anti-war song from ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’
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‘Why did we fight at all? asked the Pandavas’: Three poems mourning war by K Satchidanandan
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‘The Last Salute’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s story of a battle in Kashmir asks again why wars are fought
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‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’: A soldier-poet’s cry against the cruelties of war
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‘Words from the Depth of Truth’: Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on war and destruction
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Poetry for peace: ‘Delay The War, It Is Better,’ wrote Sahir Ludhianvi