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Mallika Sengupta Poems
- Tell Us Marx She who spun rhymes, wove blankets The ...
- The Husband's Black Hands The moment she tucks in the ...
- Tongue The drumroll of centuries — our hearts beat with ...
- The Girl On The Sunlit Road As the shadows of Minto Park ...
- Khanaa's Song Listen o listen: Hark this tale of Khanaa In ...
- A Girl In Gujarat Genocide Gujarat was a land of violet, red ...
- Insignia Of Blood Man, I've never raised my arms against ...
Mallika Sengupta was a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry".
Biography
Mallika was born in Krishnanagar, a village in Nadia district, West Bengal, India. Sengupta is a proponent of an unapologetically political poetry and an important voice in contemporary Bengali literature. She began writing in 1981 and has since published eleven books of poetry, two novels and several essays, and edited an anthology of women’s poetry from Bengal. She works as a lecturer of sociology in a Kolkata college where she is currently the head of her department. She is also the Poetry Editor of Sananda, the... more »
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Tell Us Marx
She who spun rhymes, wove blankets
The Dravidian woman who sowed wheat
In the Aryan man’s fields, reared his kids
If she isn’t worker, then what is work?
Tell us, Marx, who is a worker who isn’t
New industrial workers with monthly wages
Are they the only ones who work?
Slum life is the Industrial Age’s gift
To the worker’s housewife
She draws water, mops floors, cooks food
After daily grind at night
She beats her son and weeps
She too isn’t worker?
Then tell us, Marx, what is work!
Since housework is unpaid labour, will women ...
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