LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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A Perspective Glass Portraying Distinct Subaltern Ache in
Meena Kandasamy’s Poems

Anushya. M., M.Phil. Scholar

Abstract

World is racing towards our ultimate master called wealth. People mask their identity with the social status to be respected, but they fail to recognize even their neighbors. In this fast- moving age, there are people who are rendered without any agency by social status. We label them as margins of the society. The ache of emancipating themselves from the clutches of poverty makes them unable to rejoice any societal status. In addition to that people look down them as menial creatures neglecting even the basic rights they are to opt. Meena Kandasamy, Indian poet and activist, shoots with her powerful words piercing through the lives of such marginalized people. Her poems are not only verses but also the celestial arrow tearing the hearts of what is left unnoticed and marginalized. This kind of literature proves the rage to reflect shame that bears on the same society that runs to hold the hands of wealth and meaningless status.

Thus, literature voices for those unspoken pain enabling the society to envision the cruelty of poverty. The treasure of holding such pain is not only to understand but also to step ahead for the betterment for such lives.

Keywords: Meena Kandasamy, subaltern, rage, shame and meaninglessness

Introduction

Society is tangled inseparable with the ultimate master called wealth. We are running to catch hold of wealth and its need remains not pregnant. The governance of money by man has changed to the governance imposed by money on man. In such a race we are socially discriminated based on the hierarchy we build among ourselves. One such group, socially cornered based on power of wealth are called Subaltern. On one hand they have their ache for living. On the other the urge to be treated equally bares their ache to live that they decide death could be better than living with their identity. We label them as ‘subaltern’ and the very name could make them stand away from the normal crowd (i.e.) cornering by their position in the world. Meena Kandasamy, a poetess from such marginalized community, speaks out through her writings with such a rage and reality to open our minds to the ache that we knowingly and unknowingly impose upon such lives.

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Anushya. M., M.Phil. Scholar
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