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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M. F. Hussain, the 95-year-old exiled artist also known as “India’s Picasso,” died of a heart attack in a London hospital on June 9. In this video Hussain answer questions about his life, work, and exile.
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Q&A with writer and activist Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since the early ’90s. Here, she speaks about women’s rights in relation to Islamic law. Nasrin has faced two fatwas in India and three in her home country, Bangladesh
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