Eklavya
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Hello readers!
Hear I would like to write blog about poem Eklavya written by Indian poet meena kandasamy.
Meena kandasamy is an Indian poet, fiction, writer, translator and activist who is based in chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Most of her works are centred on feminism and the anti cast " annihilation movement" of the contemporary Indian milieu. Meena kandasamy has published two collection of poetry. She also edits the Dalit - A bi-monthly alternative English magazine of the Dalit media network.
Meena kandasamy, a part from her literary works, she is bold and vocal about various contemporary political issues relating to caste, corruption, violence and womens right is an influential and regular on social media.
Eklavya
In the poem " Eklavian" which is an extract from her collections of poems that "Touch" meena kandasamy starts the poem by assuring the tribe man of so - called low caste - Eklavya and consoles the character by saying
" you can do a lot of things
With your left hand."
She takes up the, episode of the " mahabharata" where Eklavya was exclude from the "Art of Archery". By the great Guru Dronacharya, and he had to pay a heavy price for being a tribe man of so called low caste. Meena kandasamy is critical of this treatment mented out by Eklavya from a Guru like Dronacharya.
" Besides facist Dronacharya warrant left - handed treatment".
Eklavya possessed the noblest soul and a noble character. He pasted with his table only to gratify the will of a Guru who did not taught him but rather humiliated him by debarring Eklavya and stopping him from learning Archery. His right thumb was amputated just because he should not become a better Archer than a boy of uppercasts.
Conclusion
Here the poetess again consoles such Eklavya that they don't nerd their right thumb. To do any type of work. That what the poet is troubled with is that Dronacharya's decision was affected by verna system.
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