An excerpt from The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamym, an experimental novelization of an uprising and massacre of agricultural workers in India, and a meditation on the impossibility of writing a novel.
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Three poems from Meena Kandasamy’s collection Ms. Militancy are presented to defy the recent persecution of writers like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin in India. In Ms. Militancy Kandasamy retells Hindu and Tamil mythology through a feminist perspective.
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In this interview with Meena Kandasamy, SujeethG speaks about his work, the importance of protest music in a revolutionary struggle, and hip hop’s ability to transform the meaning of the material it appropriates.
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Meena Kandasamy just finished the final manuscripts of her second poetry collection, Ms. Militancy. Kandasamy poems retell Hindu/Tamil myths, in a feminist, anti-hierarchy, and anti-caste perspective. Some of the poems make the myths contemporary by locating […]
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anaconda. candy. cash. catamaran. cheroot. coolie. corundum. curry. ginger. mango. mulligatawny. patchouli. poppadom. rice. tatty. teak. vetiver. i dream of an english full of the words of my language. an english in small letters an english […]
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