‘A poet has the responsibility to guard language and to employ it to show what’s happening around’

In an interview with The Hindu, writer-activist Meena Kandasamy talks about the need to revisit classics, the Western gaze in literature, and the need to defend language from being captured by modern oppressive forces. She was in Bengaluru to deliver a lecture

‘A poet has the responsibility to guard language and to employ it to show what’s happening around’
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In an interview with The Hindu, writer-activist Meena Kandasamy talks about the need to revisit classics, the Western gaze in literature, and the need to defend language from being captured by modern oppressive forces. She was in Bengaluru to deliver a lecture