Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry | Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with Malashri Lal | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
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Sahitya Akademi-winning poet and writer Arundhathi Subramaniam's recent anthology, ‘Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry,’ is a celebration of women of the past who surrendered only to the authority of the human spirit. An ode to the sacred feminine, this powerful session at the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 she is in a conversation with academic and writer Malashri Lal, steeped in the intimately familiar yearnings and ecstatic freedoms of wild women.
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Described as ‘one of the finest poets writing in India today’, her recent volume, When God is a Traveller, won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Award, was selected as the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Malashri Lal, Professor in the English Department (retd), and Former Dean, University of Delhi, has authored and edited eighteen books. These include In Search of Sita, Tagore and the Feminine, and Finding Radha. Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, co-authored with Namita Gokhale, received the Kalinga Fiction Award. Her recent books are Mandalas of Time:Poems, and, co-edited with Namita Gokhale, Treasures of Lakshmi. Lal is currently Convener, English Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi. She received the Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence, 2022.
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It is unbelievable what she is saying. There is such a rich tradition of women poets and philosophers. In fact Andaal wrote an erotic poem of mating with the supernatural.