I earnestly hope in the 64 poems included in Indomitable Draupadi readers will not only find food for thought, but I earnestly hope that these poems about the many Kurukshetra battles that women fight within their homes and in the world will resonate in the minds of the empathetic readers and remain with them for a long time.
The female body which is seen as a handicap in a patriarchal society destabilises the hierarchy when it comes to the domain of poetry. The literal body of a female poet forms a tradition whose legacy outweighs the tradition formed by the body of works of the male poets. In the field of contemporary poets, these poets walk with élan.
Using the tropes of the seasons in her poems, Ananya Chatterjee has dealt with human relationships and nature interchangeably. The robin-abandoned Gulmohar and the heartbroken human are the same. By doing so, she has given what is transient in the human world a semblance of permanence of the natural world.
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