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412. The Women No Longer Wait
Arundhathi Subramaniam
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A wobbling world tries to find its axis: fabrics tear, lands splinter, loved ones vanish, names fade.
This session intertwines conversation and poetry, inviting audiences into the bold, shimmering world of Arundhathi Subramaniam’s luminous new collection. The session will trace the arc through the sacred and the feminine, culminating in this celebration of fierce, unruly womanhood.
Sumbramaniam’s collection takes us through shifting landscapes, following the strides of extraordinary women. Women who vault over borders, stroll naked through history, tilt sideways into the unexpected, and sometimes walk entirely upside down. They blur the boundaries between the mundane and the magical, the remembered and the imagined, revealing a world waiting quietly within the old one. Welcome a world that demands new ways of being, new acts of courage, new freedoms!
In this episode of BIC Talks, Arundhathi Subramaniam takes us through her book and her process. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in Nov 2025.
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Speaker
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is one of India’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. Her recent works include Wild Women, an anthology of female mystic poetry, and Women Who Wear Only Themselves. Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize (2015), she has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry (2020), the Il Ceppo Prize, and the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award, among many others. A critic, curator, and poetry editor, she divides her time between New York, Chennai, and Mumbai.
