presentation on one Eyed

1. One Eyed -
Meena
Kandasamy
• Name: Panchasara Jignesh k.
• Roll no: 8
• Enrollment No:
3069206420200013
• Paper No: Paper 202: Indian
English Literature – Post-
Independence
• Batch: 2020-2022
• Email: jigneshpanchasara575
8@gmail.com
• Submitted To: S.B. Gardi
Department of English MKBU

2. Meena Kandasamy
• Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy is
an Indian poet, fiction
writer, translator and activist
from Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India. Meena published two
collections of poetry, Touch
and Ms. Militancy. From
2001-2002, she edited The
Dalit, a bi-monthly
alternative English magazine
of the Dalit Media Network.

3. Continue….
• Meena Kandasamy always sketches the weakness and struggle of the
Dalits in her poems. In her poem, “One-Eyed”, she delineates the
continued existence of oppressive structures of caste, class, race and
gender domination within the Indian society. She has designed her
poem in such a way to incorporate the marginalized, the voices of the
Dalit community. She delineates the savage treatment of untouchables.
The perspectives of the inanimate objects on the Dalits are quite
common but the society rebels against the use of inanimate objects
touched by the untouchables.

4. One Eyed
• the pot sees just another noisy child
• the glass sees an eager and clumsy hand
• the water sees a parched throat slaking
thirst
• but the teacher sees a girl breaking the rule
• the doctor sees a case of medical emergency
• the school sees a potential embarrassment
• the press sees a headline and a photofeature
• dhanam sees a world torn in half.
• her left eye, lid open but light slapped away,
• the price for a taste of that touchable water.
•

5. One Eyed, the
short poem…..
One Eyed, the short poem highlights various
atrocities committed against the dalit women.
Meena emphasizes the humanitarian attitude of
inanimate things which human beings lack. The
pot, the glass and the water quench the thirst of a
person while the teacher, the doctor, the school and
the press are indifferent to the needs of the people.
The dalit woman Dhanam was “torn in half” when
she tries to get a pot of water at the cost of her left
eye. …….the teacher sees a girl breaking the rule the
doctor sees a medical emergency the school sees a
potential embarrassment the press sees a headline
and a photo feature dhanam sees a world torn in
half her left eye, lid open but light slapped away,
the price for a taste of that touchable water.

6. Key Words
•“One-Eyed”,
• Dalit,
•untouchable,
•community,
• inanimate

7. “the pot sees just another noisy child
the glass sees an eager and clumsy hand
the water sees a parched throat slaking thirst” (One-Eyed)
“dhanam sees a world torn in half.
her left eye, lid open but light slapped away,
the price for a taste of that touchable water”

8. Maharashtra water
crisis: Dalit man digs
a well in 40 days after
his wife humiliated for
water

9. Works
Cited
• Gupta, Deepak. "Maharashtra Water Crisis: Dalit
Man Digs A Well In 40 Days After His Wife
Humiliated For Water". India News, Breaking
News | India.Com, 2021,
https://www.india.com/news/india/maharashtra-
water-crisis-dalit-man-digs-a-well-in-40-days-
after-his-wife-humiliated-for-water-1168309/.
• Kandasamy.Co.Uk, 2021,
https://www.kandasamy.co.uk/about.
• Languageinindia.Com, 2021,
http://languageinindia.com/sep2019/mkuliteratu
re2019/rathi.pdf.

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