'Rape Nation': Meena Kandasamy Poem on the Hathras Case

Meena Kandasamy writes a poem in response to the rape of a 19 year old Dalit woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India.

'In Hathras, cops barricade a raped woman’s home,
hijack her corpse, set it afire on a murderous night,
deaf to her mother’s howling pain. In a land where
Dalits cannot rule, they cannot rage, or even mourn.
This has happened before, this will happen again.'

Read the full poem by Meena Kandasamy on The Wire.