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Meena Kandasamy
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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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Exquisite Cadavers
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The Gypsy Goddess
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Ms Militancy
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The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle
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This Poem Will Provoke You
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Touch
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The Book Of Desire: TIRUKKUR− AL.
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“Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
“The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.”
― The Gypsy Goddess
― The Gypsy Goddess
“I am the woman who is willing to display her scars and put them within exhibition frames. I am the madwoman of moon days. I am the breast-beating woman who howls. I am the woman who wills the skies to weep in my place.”
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
― When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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“Just because this is a novel set in rural India, do not expect a herd of buffalo to walk across every page for the sake of authenticity.”
― The Gypsy Goddess
― The Gypsy Goddess
“Everything is so precariously held together here that you might want a helping hand. Nobody is going to teach you that right after a harvest, poorly paid labourers were hungry enough to smoke out rodent holes and steal back the grains of paddy pilfered by rats. But you will manage. You will learn to relate without family trees. You will learn to make do without a village map. You will learn that criminal landlords can break civil laws to enforce caste codes. You will learn that handfuls of rice of rice can consume half a village. You will loafer learn that in the eyes of the law, the rich are incapable of soiling their hands with either mud or blood. You will learn to wait for revenge with the patience of a village awaiting rain.”
― The Gypsy Goddess
― The Gypsy Goddess
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