This is not a mere work of translation; this is the confluence of two great poets who defied the oppressive states of their respective times.

As a woman still living in a village and having spent my childhood in a very closely knit community, I have had chance to experience all kinds of slurs which normalise and endorse rape.

'I'm a fugitive for some and a terrorist for many. I don't have guns – they say but I read Arundhati Roy and Meena Kandasamy.'