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Apr.02.2008 - 5:57 am
“Translations, being poems too, are never finished, only abandoned”, wrote A.K. Ramanujan, extending Valery’s observation on poems. Does the similarity stop there, or, is the...
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Mar.06.2011
Published by The Hindu Literary Review
A man who saw the poet Meena Kandasamy read out from her latest poetry collection, Ms. Militancy, at the Jaipur Literary Festival this January apparently felt threatened enough to...
About Meena
Meena Kandasamy (1984) is a poet, writer, activist and translator. She sees each of these as a way of engaging with her identity as a woman, a Dalit and a Tamil, three categories of belonging with a history of resistance to oppression. Meena was the youngest...