A fierce critique of academic language, 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. This was primarily brought to light during the beef controversy at the Osmania University in Hyderabad in 2012.Īs a writer Meena's focus was mainly on caste annihilation, feminism and linguistic identity. She also writes columns for platforms like Outlook India and The Hindu, occasionally. She has an influential and regular social media presence, through her Facebook and Twitter handles.
She has also 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.Īpart from her literary works, she is vocal about various contemporary political issues relating to caste, corruption, violence, and women's rights in more ways than one. From 2001-2002, she edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit Media Network. Two of her poems have won accolades in all-India poetry competitions. Most of her works are centered on feminism and the anti-caste Caste Annihilation Movement of the contemporary Indian milieu.Īs of 2013, Meena has published two collections of poetry namely, Touch (2006) and Ms. Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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