Research Scholars Forum (RSF)

The English and Foreign Languages University

Invites you to the talk On Dalits and English
By

Meena Kandasamy,
Writer, Poet, Activist and Translator

Venue: Conference Room, Administrative Block. Date : Wednesday, 29 February 2012, Time: 5pm
Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, activist and translator. Her work maintains a focus on caste annihilation, linguistic identity and feminism. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms Militancy (2010). She was the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and also served as a Visiting Fellow at the School of Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK in 2011. In 2009, she was a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowas International Writing Program (IWP). She was a featured poet at the City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Concert 2009 held in Pittsburgh, USA and the 14th Poetry Africa International Festival in October 2010 in Durban. In 2011, she performed at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Blue Metropolis Festival, Ottawa Writers Festival and the Kovalam Literary Festival. Two of her poems, Mascara and My Lover Speaks of Rape have won first prizes in pan-India poetry competitions, and her poetry has been profiled in several international publications. Previously, she edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly English magazine. She holds a PhD in socio-linguistics from Anna University Chennai, and is now working on her first novel The Gypsy Goddess.

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