Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Meena Kandasamy
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Love is not blind, it just looks in the wrong places.
Meena Kandasamy
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Shame is not in the beatings, not in the rape. Shame is in being asked to stand judgment.
Meena Kandasamy
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A memoir for me means a person’s life story; if I was going to write my actual life story, I would condense this entire marriage into a footnote.
On her book When I Hit You in “Meena Kandasamy: ‘If I was going to write my life story, I would condense that marriage to a footnote’” in
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Born 1984 · age 42
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