Other works such as Mascara and My lover speaks of Rape won her the first prize in all India Poetry competition. In this book, she adopts an anti-caste and feminist lens to retell Hindu and Tamil myths. Militancy was published the following year. One of her first collections, Touch was published in August 2006, with a foreword by Kamala Das.
She says, "Poetry is not caught up within larger structures that pressure you to adopt a certain set of practices while you present your ideas in the way that academic language is" and thus, prefers to use it for her activism. Professional career Īs a writer, Meena's focus was mainly on caste annihilation, feminism and linguistic identity. She began writing poetry at age 17 and began translating books by Dalit writers and leaders into English. She completed a Doctorate of Philosophy in Socio-linguistics from Anna University, Chennai. Early life and education īorn in 1984 to Tamil parents, both university professors, she developed an early interest in poetry, and later adopted the name Meena. She writes columns for platforms like Outlook India and The Hindu. She represented India at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. From 2001-2002, she edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit Media Network.
Meena published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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