Meena Kandasamy



A Poet Learns the Limitations of Her Craft

I am singing a song that can only be born after losing a country. —Joy Harjo ▅▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅▅ [Urgent] This cannot fit into a poem. This should be a political pamphlet. ▅ ▅▅▅▅ ▅▅▅ ▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ …

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We Need to Talk about Caste: Roanna Gonsalves Interviews S Anand

It was a cool inner west Sydney evening in May 2015, alive with families out to dinner and bookshops open late. It was also one week after four Dalits were sexually abused, murdered, and their homes set on fire in Rajasthan, India, and three weeks before a Dalit girl in a village in Madhya Pradesh, India was beaten up because her shadow fell on an upper caste man.

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