According to Jonathan Culler, "the fundamental identity of the characters emerges as the result of actions, of struggles with the world, but then this identity is posed as a basis, even the cause of these actions” (111). The same cause is reflected in the works of Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984) who belongs to that category that has in the past tended to be the most subjugated and repressed: Dalits and women. Kandasamy sees her writing as a process of confronting her identity: her “femininity, her Tamil character, and her low/excluded character” which she wears with pride (Sarangi, par. 1). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak suggests: “I construct my definition of woman not in terms of the putative essence of woman but in terms of words currently in use. “Man” is such a word in common use. Not a word, but the word” (Lodge and Wood 495). And we can see with surprise that Meena Kandasamy changed her official and very poetic Tamil first name, Ilavenil, to her first name Meena. The titles of his two volumes imply a perception of social deprivation that accumulates in history in the form of cycles of violence and bonds of collective guilt. His collection of poems Touch was published in 2006. It is a collection of ardent poems dealing with the double conflict of oppressor-oppressed. Her second collection, Ms Militancy, was published in 2010. Kandasamy's poems are well versed in a wisdom of gender relations that suggests that being a woman in a largely patriarchal culture is another form of group membership minor social. “It is not necessary to be Dalit: being a woman, caste is in you,” she says (Stancati, n. pag.). Kandasamy realizes that a politically alert poet must be transparent with himself in order to be a reliable voice of dissent and resistance. In the title poem of his ...... middle of paper ...... development. November 29, 2010. The web. April 2, 2013.Rajagopalan, Kavya. "An interview with Kavya Rajagopalan". thamarai.com, 2011. Web. September 05, 2013.Sarangi, Jaydeep. “Kandasamy Touch.” mascarareview.com. 2007. Internet. November 10, 2012. Stancati, Margherita. “A Dalit poet fights in verse.” blogs.wsj.com. 2011. Web.02January2013.Subramaniam, Arundhathi. “Meena Kandasamy.” poetryinternationalweb.net. and Web. September 11, 2013.Woolf, Virginia. A room of your own. Marine books; 1st edition Harvest/HBJ: 1989 edition. Print.