Publications « Meena Kandasamy

Publications

SELECTED TRANSLATIONS

TALISMAN: Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation. Political essays of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal leader Thol. Thirumavalavan, Samya (Kolkata), 2003. pp. 185 + xxx.
UPROOT HINDUTVA: The Fiery Voice of the Liberation Panthers,Speeches of Thol. Thirumaavalavan, Samya, Kolkata, 2004. pp. 248 + xxvi.
POINT-BLANK, Poems of Tamil Eelam poet Kasi Anandan, Kudil, Chennai, 2005, pp.112.
FABLES, Short-stories of Kasi Anandan, Kudil, Chennai, 2005, pp.112.
30 poems of 18 Tamil Dalit poets for Muse India, Sept-Oct 2006 for a special feature on Tamil Dalit Literature.
WHY WERE WOMEN ENSLAVED? Essays of Periyar EV Ramasamy on women’s rights, Periyar Self Respect Propaganda Institution, Chennai, August 2007, pp.99 + xvi.

BOOK-CHAPTERS

And One Shall Live in Two, Afterword in Tamil Dalit writer P. Sivakami’s novel “The Grip of Change,” Orient Longman, Chennai, March 2006.

Between Her Legs: Hindutva and Dalit Women in ‘Hindutva and Dalits’, editor: Anand Teltumbde, Samya, Kolkata, February 2005. pp.108-135. betweenherlegs.pdf

SELECTED ESSAYS

Slumdog debate: Let’s not be in denial of the reality, The New Indian Express, i.witness, January 25, 2009.
Dalits and the Press in India: With Specific Reference to Pandit C. Iyothee Thass and the Tamilian Weekly, Voice of Dalit, 1(2), July-December 2009, pp.125-145
Book. Booker. Booked: Indian Fiction in English, The New Indian Express, i.witness, September 13, 2008
Words Across Borders: Translation As Liberation, The Hindu Literary Review, January 06, 2008.
Heal Thyself, Opinion Column at Culture Vulture, Tehelka, 29 September 2007.
Dangerous Cacophony: Hindutva Consolidation and Conscription in Tamilnadu through Celebrations, Communalism Combat, Mumbai, Nov–Dec 2004, Vol. 11, pp. 22-34. dangerous-cacophony.pdf
Udderly Fanatic. Boloji, 17 November 2002. (On the atrocity where five Dalits where lynched for skinning a dead cow in Jhajjar, Haryana).
Casteist. Communalist. Racist. And Now, A Nobel Laureate. Po-Co Web, 2002. (my first foray into real writing!)

BIOGRAPHY

(with M. Nisar) AYYANKALI: A Dalit leader of Organic Protest. Foreword by Kancha Ilaiah, Other Books, Calicut, January 2008, pp.103.

POETRY

TOUCH. Pages: 144, Price: 145, Published by Peacock Books, the poetry imprint of Frog Books, Mumbai in August 2006, ISBN: 81-88811-87-4. Do visit the page for my book which contains details of reviews, interviews and so on. The section here deals only with individual poems.(Print magazines)

(Chapbook) 16 elegant, untitled poems have been hosted as an e-chapbook The Eighth Day of Creation on the poetry website Slow Trains.

(Profiled)

The Poetry International Web, September 2007 carries my poems and an interview with me in an issue that features five political poets from India.
You could also read some of my best poems (including my first award-winning poem ‘Mascara’ and the controversial poem on Gandhi) at the Poetry with Prakriti website.
Open Space’s Talking Poetry (edited by Priya Sarukkai) carries some of my favorite poems
To read all my published poems, please visit my POETRY blog.
My poetry has appeared in The Little Magazine, Indian Literature, Kavya Bharati, Indian Horizons, Carapace, Muse India, Kritya, Sweet Magazine, Cerebration, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore among others.
I was selected as one of the 52 writers to watch for in the Redroom.com’s rising starts of the year 2008

FICTION: SHORT-STORIES

The Suicide’s Inbox. In the collection 21 Under 40: New Fiction for a New Generation, the Zubaan Anthology of Young Women Writing from South Asia, New Delhi, March 2007.

Godstruck (Will you believe me if I tell you that it was translated into Slovenian?!? Oh really it was)

BOOK-REVIEWS (in The New Indian Express)

FEMINIST BLOGS (on Ultra-Violet)

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