To be an Indian patriot it’s not enough to just love your country any more.

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who lives in Chennai and London. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch... and Ms. Militancy, and the critically acclaimed novels The Gypsy Goddess and When I Hit You, Or, The Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife.
To be an Indian patriot it’s not enough to just love your country any more.
The toxic masculinity that triggered the New Year Eve’s attacks on women was there in the morning to deny they happened.