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56: 462:, organised a beef eating festival to protest against the "food fascism" in hostels. The right-wing student group Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged protests against the event and organisers. Meena attended the festival and spoke in support of it. She faced incessant abuse online as a result. The Network of Women in Media India (NWMI) released a press statement condemning the attack on her. 267: 482:
writers such as Kasi Anandan, Cheran and VIS Jayapalan into English. Speaking about her role as translator, she says: "I know that there is no limit, no boundary, no specific style guide to poetry—that you are free to experiment, that you are free to find your own voice, that you are free to flounder
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Meena works closely with issues of caste and gender and how society puts people into stereotypical roles on the basis of these categories. She has faced threats for her fearless criticism of the Hindu society, to which she says: "This threat of violence shouldn’t dictate what you are going to write
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concludes that Meena "authors a poetic discourse that not only castigates the prevalent modes of subjugation but also resolutely strives towards futures that are yet to be born." In an interview with Sampsonia Way Magazine, Meena said "My poetry is naked, my poetry is in tears, my poetry screams in
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and linguistic identity. She says, "Poetry is not caught up within larger structures that pressure you to adopt a certain set of practices while you present your ideas in the way that academic language is," and thus, prefers to use it for her activism. One of her first collections,
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was published the following year. In this book, Meena adopts an anti-caste and feminist lens to retell Hindu and Tamil myths. Other works, such as "Mascara" and "My Lover Speaks of Rape", won her prizes in India poetry competitions.
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put the negative criticism into context, describing Meena's work as difficult for anyone whose politics were "mainstream". Her poetry is "about the female self and body in ways not 'allowed' by this discourse". An analysis of
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anger, my poetry writhes in pain. My poetry smells of blood, my poetry salutes sacrifice. My poetry speaks like my people, my poetry speaks for my people."
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was described as an improvement in her use of the English language but "disastrous, if not worse" in terms of themes and content. A review in
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parents, both university professors, she developed an early interest in poetry, and later adopted the name Meena. She completed a
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was criticised for its English language errors, though its challenging themes were described as "interesting".
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and also free to fail once in a while because all this happens all the time when you translate."
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in 2009 Two years later, Meena was made the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the
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Meena has translated prose and poetry from Tamil. She has translated the work of
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women writers aged less than 40 from South Asia for an anthology published by
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Her work has been published in anthologies and journals that include
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Waking is Another Dream: Poems on the Genocide in Tamil Eelam
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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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Meena made her acting debut in the 2014 Malayalam film
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and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the
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Satchidanandan" 408:AYYANKALI: A Dalit leader of Organic Protest 1602:"Meena Kandasamy wins Hermann Kesten prize" 1192: 1190: 1188: 1186: 1028: 1026: 946: 229: 185:Meena published two collections of poetry, 1410:"A Female Dalit Poet Fights Back in Verse" 54: 1622: 1264:"Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry" 1223: 1199:"Poems of an outdated, designer feminism" 855: 785:"INDIA Being Untouchable (press release)" 600:#ThisPoemWillProvokeYou & Other Poems 274:As a writer, Meena's focus was mainly on 1616: 1230:Chakraborty, Abin; Jana, Ujjwal (2012). 1183: 1023: 670:Uproot Hindutva: The Fiery Voice of the 265: 1645: 988: 986: 924: 329:Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry 1714: 1676: 1625:"The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy" 1318: 1316: 1291:"Meena Kandasamy – 2009 Resident" 1196: 1032: 695:(editor), Ravishanker (co-translator) 454:In 2012, a group of Dalit students of 261: 193:(2010). 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Index

Indian name
patronymic
given name
Meena in 2016
Anna University
Dalit literature
The Orders Were to Rape You
Hermann Kesten Prize
poet
translator
activist
Chennai
Tamil Nadu
India
University of Iowa
International Writing Program
University of Kent
Canterbury
Outlook India
The Hindu
Tamil
Doctorate of Philosophy
Socio-linguistics
Anna University
Chennai
Dalit

caste
feminism
Kamala Das

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