Article Details

Tishani Doshi’s Poetry: A Clarion Call against Suppression, Subjugation and Exploitation of Women | Original Article

Hardeep Singh*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

Half Welsh, half Gujrati, Tishani Doshi is a poet, journalist and a talented performer. Her poems, essays, and stories have been widely anthologized. Her poetry covers topics of the oppression women face, the role of nature and its relationship with women empowerment and their true potential. Her poetry voices the tales of struggles of women. Her poems sound a stern warning grounded in a refusal to suffer violence or shame. She deliberately sets out the boundaries of the female body in order to challenge those who might lay claim to it. Tishani avers that until more legislation is put in place to protect women, until mothers and fathers raise their sons and daughters equally, until we can create a society that offers women the same freedom and access to education as men and ensures women’s complete power over their reproductive rights, we would fail in our mission of giving women a respectable place in their society. The present paper endeavors to elaborate on the voice of dissent and revolt against suppression and subjugation of women as shown in the poems of Tishani Doshi.