Interior Decoration: Poems By 54 Women From 10 Languages

978-81-88965-62-5

Women Unlimited, 2010

Language: English

335 pages

5.5"x8.5"

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Many of India’s best known women poets, as well as some of its less familiar ones are to be found in this landmark volume of 54 women poets from ten languages. Its rich and varied selection presents a feast of poetry in translations that are remarkable for their fidelity and poetic rendering. An experience of womanhood may be the locus of this anthology, but modes of expression vary by circumstance. Some speak of the pain of husbands and the love of children, others of a lover’s touch, and the value of mothers, work, and writing. Their voices are tinged, or ringing, with joy or anger, frustration or satisfaction, regret or ironic resignation. The collection includes Kamala Das, Gauri Deshpande, Mandakranta Sen, Malika Amar Sheikh, Mamang Dai, Salma, Savithri Rajeevan, among others.

Ammu Joseph

Ammu Joseph is a journalist, author, media analyst and editorial consultant, and author based in Bangalore, India. She writes primarily on issues relating to gender, human development, the media and culture.

Ritu Menon

Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the groundbreaking Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition; Out of Line: a literary and political biography of Nayantara Sahgal; Loitering With Intent: Diary of a Happy Traveller; and editor of a number of anthologies of prose, poetry and memoirs. ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts is her latest book.


Vasanth Kannabiran

Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist writer, a pioneer of the Indian women’s movement, founding member of the Asmita Resource Centre for Women and member of the collective, Stree Shakti Sanghatana. She has worked for over four decades on issues of development, rights, communal harmony and peace, apart from bringing the concerns of gender and equality into the contemporary political discourse. She is the author of A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work & Loss and Sathyavathi: Confronting Caste, Class and Gender,among others; has co-authored Web of Deceit and De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power; and was a popular columnist for a Telugu daily. Kannabiran has also written and directed five ballets in English.Her latest book is a memoir, Taken at the Flood.


Volga

Volga is a Telugu poet and writer well known for her feminist perspective. Her novels, articles, poems portray women with modern, progressive ideologies. She won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2015 for her short story compilation Vimukta Kadha Samputi in Telugu.