The body of a woman and its politics, largely unspoken of in the public Tamil scenario, has been her pivotal focus. Kutti Revathi is eminent in bringing out the passionate poetical effervescence of a woman’s psycho-physic pursuits. It attains the perfection of its trainingįrom Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), Issue 1/2017, ‘Songs of the Shattered Throat' Translated from the Tamil by Vivek Narayanan, Padma Narayanan, and the author This is the change this book aims for.’įrom the Magazine Poverty Porn: Making Heroes Out Of People Just Struggling To Survive Poverty In Bihar: Government Numbers Hide Real Story How Caste Equations Continue To Shape Bihar’s Economic Fortunes A Trafficked Woman, A Young Hotel Cleaner: Poverty’s Children Of Kishanganj Street Diary | A Rickshaw-puller’s Take On Life And Lockdown Because dissent is collective and works by gathering even the meekest voices, it is worthwhile to remember what the feminist poet Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi of Assam wrote: …keep a bit of the sky in your bosom. One could even go so far as to say that this agrarian social struggle, given how it managed to achieve its objective of getting the three farm laws repealed, has been the most successful protest movement in the country over the past seven years.Īs we look back at this year, during which protest was such a big part of our lives, we commemorate the idea of dissent through these four poems, from Witness - The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent (2021).Īccording to Nabina Das, poet and editor of this volume , ‘Poets in this anthology lament the times fiercely, as Witness, as a ‘shaheed', in this fight against the brute forces.
Though every year is in some ways a year of protests, 2021 will hold a special place in the hearts of many for the manner in which the protest led by farmers in India, against all odds, forced New Delhi to agree to its demands.
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