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New york city poet meena alexander was born in allahabad, india and divided her childhood between india and the sudan. Nayantara sahgals rich like us 1983, meena alexanders nampally road 1991, and arundhati roys the god of small things 1997. For several years she lived in hyderabad, teaching in the english department, central university of hyderabad, which was housed in the golden threshold, once upon a time the residence of sarojini naidu. Notes on landmarks notes on landmarks and nampally road. Feb 11, 2011 as a reward for actually making progress toward my three page goal for the weekend, i got to read meena alexander s book of poetry quickly changing river this afternoon. Meena alexander 17 february 1951 21 november 2018 was an indian poet, scholar, and. They met each other during a protest march organized by the students against margaret thatcher. On the literary map of indian women writings, meena alexander appears to be leading woman poetess. Nampally road download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
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