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Ms Militancy by Meena Kandasamy5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Never miss real stories from India's women. In 2011, she performed at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Blue Metropolis Festival, Ottawa Writers Festival and the Kovalam Literary Festival. She was a featured poet at the City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Concert 2009 held in Pittsburgh, USA and the 14th Poetry Africa International Festival in October 2010 in Durban. ![]() In 2009, she was a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP). She was the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and also served as a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK in 2011. She has published two collections of poetry, ‘Touch’ (2006) and ‘Ms Militancy’ (2010). ![]() She has credentials many people would give their right arms to achieve. She’s a feminist, a writer, a poet, a translator and a champion of Dalit rights. ![]() I had picked up a magazine at the Delhi airport, and I read about her with growing horror, incredulity, and shame. I hadn’t heard of Meena Kandasamy till the other day. ![]()
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