![]() ![]() Militancy« (2010) appeared in the collection ✿räulein Militanz« (2014). My poetry speaks like my people, my poetry speaks for my people.« The volume of poems has been translated into several languages German translations of selected texts from »Touch« and her second volume of poems »Ms. ![]() My poetry smells of blood, my poetry salutes sacrifice. Although she is the child of an academic and is a researcher herself, she mistrusts a highly intellectual form of expression that to her is inappropriate for the subject of oppression and can by no means be a language of the victims: »My poetry is naked, my poetry is in tears, my poetry screams in anger, my poetry writhes in pain. Even here, she tackled the themes of Indian caste systems and feminism, which became formative for her later work. She wrote her first poems at the age of 17 and published her first volume of poetry in 2006 under the title »Touch«. ![]() She received her doctorate in sociolinguistics from Anna University, Chennai. The Indian writer Meena Kandasamy was born in Tamil Nadu in 1984. ![]()
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