#kandasamy

[sivavakkiyar]

Meena Kandasamy, Miss Militancy

[nando161mando]

"If I was going to begin at the beginning, remember that this Hindu society did not see education as common to everybody. It did not accept that it was everyone’s right. Only the Brahmins and the twice-borns could get educated.

The Sudras were kept out of education. If a Sudra even heard the Vedas, the Manusmriti says, the molten lead must be poured in his ears. If the Sudra recites the Vedas, the Manusmriti says, his tongue must be cut off.

Not all Brahmins and Savarnas could learn of course—the women were completely kept out of it. Even a hundred years ago, if you look at the census reports, you will see that less than two women out of a hundred could read and write."

— Meena Kandasamy

[ardent-reflections]

I will hallucinate your halos, your holiness.

Meena Kandasamy

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Book of Desire

By Meena Kandasamy.

[vims12]

Orthopedic Surgery with Dr. K.G. Kandasamy

[purplepencilproject]

A Certain Mackerel Coloured Love

Where others senses scales that

weighed them with every glance,

you only saw the tear-waters

that makes these eyes, fish.

In them, you traced

my shattered temple-roots,

and heard the short-lived,

fish-songs of small seas.

You were given to poetry.

I was given to grand lies--

"Other eyes

are mere baits,

yours cast such strong, silken nets."

In our strange story,

you sought the sea...

She swam into you.

With a single lusty fish,

and a certain mackerel-coloured love.

Meena Kandasamy

[teawiththespleen]

never read any of meena kandasamy's stuff before accidentally came across the gypsy goddess and i have my heart in my mouth

[pyrriax]

On Holiness & Slaughterhouses

unstated, deathconsciousness / unknown / consumed, david cronenberg / @pyrriax / unknown / theophagy definition, merriam-webster dictionary / agnus dei (lamb of god), francisco de zurbaran - detail / hélène cixous, from stigmata: escaping texts; "bathsheba, interior bible" / unknown / unstated, deathconsciousness / @pyrriax / meena kandasamy, from mrs sunshine / @/detailedart / @pyrriax / alexei antonov / unstated, deathconsciousness / "stag", edwin landseer / unstated, deathconsciousness / jean bernard / silas denver melvin / sierra demulder / kim fu, 'lifecycle of the mole-woman', from how festive an ambulance / margaret atwood, 'speeches for dr. frankenstein', from the animals in that country / deep, deep - have a nice life / louise bourgeois / @pyrriax / unstated, deathconsciousness

An fic-based webweave, created for @my-little-versaille for the @mcythorrorgiftexchange!

[crimsonicarus]

Banners: Moondust, James Young Quotes: The secret history by Donna Tart - The weary blues by Langston Hughes - Unknown - Sleepless. " I Must Be Living Twice": New and Selected Poems by Eileen Myles - Privilege by Beau Taplin - Honeybee by Trista Mateer - Seizure by Louise Glück - Sappho's leap by Erica Jong - The misunderstandig by Albert Camus - The cid by Pierre Corneille - Tune: the pertridge sky by Li Qingzhao - I had a dream about you by Richard Siken - Tumbl user: inanotheruniverse - Unknown - Unknown work by F. Scott Fitzgerald - A letter to Vita Sackville-West by Violet Trefusis - A poem for Haruko by June Jordan - Mrs Sunshine by Meena Kandasamy - unknown

[elderflowergin]

Thank you lovely @thefeastandthefast and தங்கை @therukurals for tagging me! Haven’t done one of these in a while :)

last song: Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’”

favourite colour: I’m enjoying magenta recently!

last book: thanks to dear @therukurals I’m currently reading meena kandasamy’s translation of thirukural “book of desire” which has me crawling on the walls. last finished my year of rest and relaxation by otessa moshfegh, which was dire but oddly compulsively readable.

last movie: conclave; excellent

last tv show: a rewatch of derry girls, my all-time comfort watch

sweet/savoury/spicy: one of each please

last thing I searched online: sausage kale white bean soup. I have like twelve tabs open for recipes I will never make

current obsession: they’re all fic-related and sadly they’re my OWN and I can’t escape from the prison of my own making. will this good partner fic become a throuple fic against my intent? will I finally finish that minister kang/dr baek fic? should I write a coda for existing idol the coup fic? does money game need a slow burn? my brain is small and sad

looking forward to: the cessation of my guts bleeding out (menstrual). undercover high school! there is no reason this should appeal to me but I’m so soft for Seo Kang-joon and Jin Ki-joo. neighbours are coming over for dinner tomorrow and they’re staid and dignified but also funny, which I like. they feel like my adult friends although I am ostensibly an adult myself. conversations with my friends. maybe even trying my hand at a biscoff cheesecake.

tagging - with no pressure at all! - @rosyfingered-moon @kselavie @teafiend @cere-mon-ials

[lover-worthy]

Meena Kandasamy x Salon d'Hercule

[akcartoonist2004]

UPDATED COMMISSION SHEET

[timetravellingkitty]

hi reva do u have any good fictional indian book recs? literally any genre works! thank u sm in advance if u answer this shfhshd

hi! I'd recommend the hungry tide by amitav ghosh (contemporary fiction) and the last queen by chitra bannerjee divakaruni (historical fiction). i liked the namesake by jhumpa lahiri (coming of age) but i think i'm due for a reread to see if it holds up. i also liked midnight's children by salman rushdie (magical realism and historical fiction). i'm planning on reading when i hit you by meena kandasamy (literary fiction), the jasmine throne by tasha suri (fantasy) and cuckold by kiran nagarkar (historical fiction). i hope you find something you like!

[papenathys]

Meena Kandasamy participating in Gayatri Spivak slander.....I love you. They will never make me hate you.

[jazleighwrites]

My MLitt Creative Writing Reading List (so far)

With inductions over, classes will be starting next week! We received a partial reading list for one of my first-year modules (Craft & Experimentation), so I thought I'd share it with you and add to it when more is added:

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson

Indeterminate Inflorescence: Lectures on Poetry by Lee Seong-bok