Navjot Khosla is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala. She has been fortunate enough to have had the best of both worlds – education in India as well as the United States. Navjot has authored a book, A Song of Freedom: Journeying from Slavery to Love in Maya Angelou’s Poetry (2015), paying homage to one of her favourite poets. Her areas of interest include children’s literature, American literature, African American literature, Shakespeare Studies and Indian classical literature. You can find her on Instagram: @1412n_k.
Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Kamala Das were all writers who, even in life, lived on the edge of taboo, scandal, and self-revelation. In death, stripped of agency, their voices have been reframed by the very people who claim to honour them. By Treya Sinha