Meena Kandasamy

When I Hit You

Novel depicting domestic violence and women's resistance in contemporary India

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Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy

Tamil poet and novelist whose The Gypsy Goddess recreates the 1968 Kilvenmani massacre of Dalit farm laborers. Her poetry confronts caste violence and patriarchy with uncompromising directness.

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