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Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. [1] Meena published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010). From 2001 to 2002, she edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit Media Network. [2]
Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [2] She is known for her feminist poetry. [2]
1994: A Play of Light: Selected Poems [4] 1996: Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination [5] 2005: Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West [6] 2005: Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture; 2012: Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780-1870 [7]
Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India.
She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, Sita, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and for a novel in French, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers (1879). Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of 21 of tuberculosis. [4]
Sukirtharani is an Indian feminist [1] [2] [3] poet who is widely acclaimed for her contribution to contemporary Dalit and Tamil literature. [4] Sukirtharani is also a Tamil teacher at the Government Girls High School in Ranipet District, and has a master's degree in economics and Tamil literature. [1] Her works include six published collection ...
"In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a poem by Indian Romanticism and Lyric poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). The work was composed and published in her anthology The Bird of Time (1912)—which included "Bangle-sellers" and "The Bird of Time", it is Naidu's second publication and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.
Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer.Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.