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The Book Of Desire

TIRUKKUR− AL.

By: Meena Kandasamy

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I invite you, dear reader, to enter this beautiful world. I invite you to fall in love.' The Book of Desire is the award-winning writer Meena Kandasamy's luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of female love and desire. The Kamattu-p-pal is the most intimate section of the Tirukkural – one of the most important texts in Tamil literature. Its verses rejoice in the pleasures of sex, beauty and all aspects of love. Although hundreds of male translations of the text have been published, it has also ever been translated by a woman once before. It is also, historically, the part that has been most heavily censored. The Book of Desire is Meena Kandasamy's own feminist reclamation of this great work. With her trademark wit, lyricism and insight, she weaves a magic spell: ensuring this timeless classic feels fresh and passionate. It fizzes with energy and joy – and tells a vital story about female agency and desire. It is a revolution 2000 years in the making.

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Galley Beggar Press

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1913111423

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9781913111427

The Gypsy Goddess

By: Meena Kandasamy

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The Gypsy Goddess

By: Meena Kandasamy

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist Party begins to gain traction, a small spark of defiance spreading from villager to villager. As communities across the region begin to take a stand against the landlords, the landlords vow to break them; Party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the market-places dries up. But it only serves to make the villagers' resistance burn more fiercely. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example to the others.

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220

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Atlantic Books

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1782391797

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9781782391791

This Poem Will Provoke You

By: Meena Kandasamy

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This Poem Will Provoke You

By: Meena Kandasamy

In this chapbook of poems, Meena Kandasamy juxtaposes the romantic ideals of love with the horrors of everyday life. Even as her love poetry plays itself out on the embattled terrain of language, the political verse explores rape culture and state violence. Two of the poems in the collection are a response to the threats to the freedom of expression which endanger artistic process and political resistance.

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Harper Collins

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9351368092

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9789351368090

A Wise One, a Warrior

Volume 3

By: Meena Kandasamy

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A Wise One, a Warrior

Volume 3

By: Meena Kandasamy

A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple. Meena Kandasamy writes about the Mithuna couple, a seventeenth-century ivory sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India, depicting lovers. Kandasamy unfurls a multi-layered, multi-directional narrative built from images, questions, and contradictions evoked by the sculpture. "How can we look at this work and not talk about who produced it?" Kandasamy asks and then examines how caste and class are carved into the object as indelibly as its physical details. Such knowledge complicates easy associations of love that may be evoked by the couple. Refusing any impulse to idealize or exoticize, Kandasamy connects the carving to personal and political stories that expose painful realities of who gets to love whom, and how. She sets the intimate alongside the institutional to interrogate terms such as decolonize, restitution, and preservation. Through an astonishing stylistic mix, including Twitter, academic discourse, poetry, and memoir, she talks back, forward, and sideways with the object.

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303580754X

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Exquisite Cadavers

By: Meena Kandasamy

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Exquisite Cadavers

By: Meena Kandasamy

An inventive, modernist short in the vein of Max Porter's Lanny.

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Atlantic Books (UK)

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1786499657

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9781786499653

The Book Of Desire

TIRUKKUR− AL.

By: Meena Kandasamy

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The Book Of Desire

TIRUKKUR− AL.

By: Meena Kandasamy

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Galley Beggar Press

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Ayyankali

A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest

By: M. Nisar,Meena Kandasamy

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Ayyankali

A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest

By: M. Nisar,Meena Kandasamy

On the life and activities of Ayyaṅkāḷi, 1863-1941, social reformer and Dalit leader from Kerala, India.

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8190388762

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9788190388764

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

By: Meena Kandasamy

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Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

By: Meena Kandasamy

A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetryan excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance. This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.

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113

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Atlantic Books

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1838959033

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9781838959036

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

By: Meena Kandasamy

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By: Meena Kandasamy

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Atlantic Books

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1838959033

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The Textbook of Health Psychology

By: Meena Hariharan

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The Textbook of Health Psychology

By: Meena Hariharan

This book examines the concept of health psychology following its trajectory from ancient to contemporary times. It analyses the theories, practice and research in health psychology from both Indian and Western perspectives. The volume brings together knowledge diversified across various narrow subfields. It expounds upon physiological psychology; chronic illnesses associated with physiological systems; and biopsychosocial approaches to treatment and management with therapeutic interventions integrated throughout the book. It further discusses health promotive and health risk behaviour with reference to health policies and databases at national and global levels. This book will be beneficial to the students, researchers and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, public health, public policy, community health, and medical and paramedical studies. It will also be indispensable to the policy-makers and NGOs working in the field of public health.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003854524

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9781003854524

Ayyankali

A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest

By: M. Nisar,Meena Kandasamy

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A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest

By: M. Nisar,Meena Kandasamy

On the life and activities of Ayyaṅkāḷi, 1863-1941, social reformer and Dalit leader from Kerala, India.

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Talisman, Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation

By: Thirumaavalavan

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Talisman, Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation

By: Thirumaavalavan

Translated For The First Time Into English From The Original Tamil, These Essays Present The Characteristically Honest And Uncompromising Views Of Thirumaavalavan, A Leading Dalit Intellectual And Mla Of The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Or The Liberation Panthers Of Tamil Nadu. Hard-Hitting, Courageous, Thought Provoking This Collection Shows New Directions In Dalit Politics.

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442

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Popular Prakashan

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8185604681

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9788185604688

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Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

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Talisman, Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation

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