Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction writer and translator from Chennai, known for the poetry collections Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010) and for fiction including When I Hit You and The Gypsy Goddess. Earlier, Kandasamy edited The Dalit, a bi-monthly English magazine of the Dalit Media Network, from 2001 to 2002. Kandasamy is also an activist who writes columns for Outlook India and The Hindu.