Recent articles 22 Dec 2011 | 05:24 pm

Two of my opinion pieces in Outlook All You Who Make Love To Mannequins (Dec 26, 2011) Global corporate love and its spawn, today’s sex surveys, just mimic our Kamasutra-vintage caste structures “O...

The Caste Insensitiveness in Tamil Language 19 Aug 2011 | 04:10 am

A clip from Vijay TV Independence Day special where I speak about the everyday presence of caste in the Tamil language

How to wipe out secularism in India 17 Jul 2011 | 03:07 am

I couldn’t believe that the DNA under Aditya Sinha (one of the editors whom I deeply admire for his editorials, his guts in taking on the DMK, and his dedication in bringing to light the atrocities su...

Interview with Anas Nawaz in Deepam TV 21 Jun 2011 | 03:49 am

Courting controversy 11 Jun 2011 | 10:09 am

Last week, I was shocked to learn that a judicial magistrate court in India has issued summons to me under Sections 153, 153 (A)and 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code, stringent provisions of the law tha...

Ms Militancy: Review in the Biblio 4 Jun 2011 | 06:25 am

Ranjit Hoskote, reviewing Ms Militancy for Biblio writes: In Meena Kandasamy’ s Ms Militancy, we encounter a series of self-dramatisations, each the result of an acute consciousness of having to addr...

Interview in The Hindu Metroplus with Baradwaj Rangan 4 Jun 2011 | 05:29 am

There’s something entirely appropriate about the lassi that Meena Kandasamy orders one April afternoon. It isn’t just that a merciless sun is beating down upon us, sneaking up even in the shade we’ve ...

Audio interview and poetry reading in OpenSpace 4 Jun 2011 | 01:50 am

When I was in Montreal for the Blue Met Literary Festival, Veena Gokhale got talking to me about my writing and activism. This was one hell of an interview: we were recording it in my hotel room at 10...

This slut wants your silence broken 4 Jun 2011 | 01:17 am

(This article of mine appeared in The Financial World, the Tehelka newspaper. Here’s the official link. It resulted in a lot of fanmail and Facebook-sharing, and of course, untrammelled rightwing rage...

Review of Ms Militancy in SAWNET by Champa Bilwakesh 23 Mar 2011 | 11:25 pm

Meena Kandasamy places gender and sexuality front and center in her collection of poems in the book Ms.Militancy. The title resonates with increasing volume as the work gradually, but surely, gets und...