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‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry

An excerpt from ‘i, Salma: Selected Poems,’ by Salma. Translated from the Tamil by K Srilata and Shobhana Kumar. Curated and conceptualised by Chandana Dutta.

Salma
,
K Srilata
,
Shobhana Kumar
&
Chandana Dutta
· Feb 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm
‘You must write the poems you must write’: Five from K Srilata’s new book of poetry

An excerpt from ‘Three Women in a Single-Room House.’

K Srilata
· Jan 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘Everything Drowns, Except This Poem’: A poem by Srilata

‘I am standing in a country of many-hued umbrellas.’

K Srilata
· Jan 01, 2024 · 11:00 pm

Can the body be a metaphor of protest? These poems by four women poets show us how

Poetry by Karthika Naïr, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, K Srilata, and Anupama Raju.

Karthika Nair
,
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
,
K Srilata
&
Anupama Raju
· Apr 19, 2020 · 07:30 pm
The poetry of missing persons: K Srilata’s new book of poems explores the idea of ‘absent presences’

‘But surely, growth, and all sorts of things, / are possible in the life / of a person who has disappeared?’

K Srilata
· Jun 30, 2019 · 08:30 am
‘We have become incapable of holding the trust of birds’, says this ‘green’ writer

An excerpt from ‘Lifescapes’, a collection of interviews with contemporary women writers from Tamil Nadu.

K Srilata
&
Swarnalatha Rangarajan
· Jan 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

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Before #MeToo, there was #BeCareful – and that applied to women who wanted to write books

‘I did my best to stay out of “harm’s way” and just focus on the writing,’ says a poet and academician and woman.

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· Oct 21, 2018 · 08:30 am
First read: Why Shiva turned to writing fiction in his ancient temple in Madras

‘Madras on my Mind’ collects twenty stories about the metropolis. Here’s an excerpt from one of them.

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· Jul 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

K Srilata

‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry

An excerpt from ‘i, Salma: Selected Poems,’ by Salma. Translated from the Tamil by K Srilata and Shobhana Kumar. Curated and conceptualised by Chandana Dutta.

Salma, K Srilata, Shobhana Kumar & Chandana Dutta · Feb 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘You must write the poems you must write’: Five from K Srilata’s new book of poetry

An excerpt from ‘Three Women in a Single-Room House.’

K Srilata · Jan 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Everything Drowns, Except This Poem’: A poem by Srilata

‘I am standing in a country of many-hued umbrellas.’

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The poetry of missing persons: K Srilata’s new book of poems explores the idea of ‘absent presences’

‘But surely, growth, and all sorts of things, / are possible in the life / of a person who has disappeared?’

K Srilata · Jun 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘We have become incapable of holding the trust of birds’, says this ‘green’ writer

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K Srilata & Swarnalatha Rangarajan · Jan 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

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Before #MeToo, there was #BeCareful – and that applied to women who wanted to write books

‘I did my best to stay out of “harm’s way” and just focus on the writing,’ says a poet and academician and woman.

K Srilata · Oct 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

First read: Why Shiva turned to writing fiction in his ancient temple in Madras

‘Madras on my Mind’ collects twenty stories about the metropolis. Here’s an excerpt from one of them.

K Srilata · Jul 07, 2017 · 08:30 am

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Salma
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&
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· Feb 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm

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· Jan 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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· Jan 01, 2024 · 11:00 pm

Karthika Nair
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,
K Srilata
&
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· Jun 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

K Srilata
&
Swarnalatha Rangarajan
· Jan 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

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· Oct 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

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· Jul 07, 2017 · 08:30 am