ROKKIAH MALIK’S carefree teenage days ended years ago, when she and some friends accidentally ended up watching an adults-only Malayalam movie in the local cinema hall. She was stopped from going to school and couldn’t even step outside her home. Not many people, especially a teenage girl full of zest for life, could have endured that kind of ‘punishment’.
But Rokkiah endured, and was completely transformed by the experience. Today, she is Salma, noted Tamil writer and politician whose words reflect the plight of oppressed womanhood. Stunning the conservative Tamil literary milieu with her bold poetry, Salma talks about the “suppressed sexual fantasies” of a woman in captivity. But even while celebrating the naked female body, her poems are full of repugnance, hurt and anger.
http://newageislam.com/from-purdah-to-poetry-and-politics/islamic-personalities/d/339
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