No-holds bard: Poems about trauma by women from across South Asia
those earthly stars, the powers that rule the world. / For her severed tongue bled and bled, and the blood spread, / Sweeping others into the flood… becoming / a rising tide of women, speaking, speaking, speaking out, / in many tongues." That's from Radha Chakaravarthy's poem, Severed Tongue (2023), which draws on the tale of Khona, a 6th-century poet…
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