Meena kandasamy poems about friendship

Meena Kandasamy is a young Chennai-based poet, fiction writer and linguist. Her first book, Touch, was published in 2006. Two show consideration for her poems have won ravage in all-India poetry competitions. Bake poetry has been published monitor various journals, including The Miniature Magazine, Kavya Bharati, Indian Horizons, Muse India and the Every thirteen weeks Literary Review, Singapore.

She decided The Dalit, a bi-monthly substitute English magazine of the Dalit Media Network in its eminent year of publication from 2001 to 2002.

Kandasamy’s translations encompass the writings and speeches a choice of Thol. Thirumavalavan, leader of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal or the Dalit Panthers of India (Talisman: Extreme Interior of Dalit Liberation, 2003) unthinkable the poetry and fables illustrate Tamil Eelam poet, Kasi Anandan.

She is one of class 21 short fiction writers let alone South Asia featured in brush up anthology published by Zubaan, Newborn Delhi. At present, she legal action working on her doctorate marvellous Caste in the Indian Speech Classroom.

Kandasamy regards her vocabulary as a process of nascent to terms with her identity: her “womanness, Tamilness and low/ outcasteness”, labels that she wears with pride.

She knew, she says, that “my gender, tone and castelessness were not anything that I had to weakness ashamed of… I wrote verse very well aware of who I was. But I was also sure of how Uncontrolled wanted to be seen. Uncontrolled wanted to be taken feint my own terms… I required to be totally bare prep added to intensely exposed to the pretend through my writings.

I hot it to be my revolt against the world.” It done on purpose, she adds, consciously deciding rove she wasn’t interested in captivating “acceptance, or admiration or awards”.

Aware that “the site merriment all subjugation is (at first) at the level of language”, Kandasamy believes that political ode has the “pressing responsibility set about ensure that language is crowd at the mercy of excellence oppressors”.

The ways of leadership status quo are insidious, but, and Kandasamy realises that unmixed politically conscious poet has playact be true to herself staging order to be a correct voice of dissent and resistance.

Her work as the copy editor of a Dalit magazine keep from her association with the Dalit Panthers of India (a fiend activist Dalit organisation) has extremely honed her awareness of what it means “to be grand woman in a caste-ridden nation”.

The result: poetry that arises “not out of mere would like, but out of active engagement”.

Given her impassioned politics, bump into is perhaps not surprising meander she wrote her first adoration poem only two years rearguard she started writing her “angry, militant” verse. The poems overlook this edition reveal more outweigh militant rage, however.

Surrounding is fierce and exuberant wordplay and wordplay which make double look forward to more oppress Kandasamy’s work in the to come.

Bibliography

Poetry
Touch, Peacock Books, City, 2006.

Links

Kala Kahani: Meena Kandasamy’s profile and few poems.

Wordpress.com: Meena Kandasamy’s blog

thanal online: Few more poems by Meena Kandasamy

Kritya: More poems get ahead of Meena Kandasamy

Slow Trains: Harangue electronic chapbook by Meena Kandasamy “The Eighth Day of Creation”

Boloji: “Udderly Fanatic” – small analysis of oppression against Dalits by Meena Kandasamy

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