Nair Lady Is A Freed Lady. Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

A Nair lady is a honeybee.
She is supreme. The ruling deity
She owns the nest, rules the nest,
Inherits it and bequeaths it to her
Women successors, with her man
Playing only the role of sperm giver.
Her child is known by her name.
A perfect example of matrilineal line
Matriarch has thus paradoxically rule
In a society eon ago, where they
Valued everything Aryan, whose
Culture practices patriarchy.
06.01.2003