Subramania Bharati’s ‘Pudhumai Penn’: The New Woman and the Fight for Equality
Subramania Bharati’s vision of the “new woman” challenged restrictions on women’s education, independence and participation in public life. His Tamil poetry treats women not merely as symbols of honour or family, but as thinking individuals whose freedom is essential to a just society. What makes a woman “new”? The idea is not simply a change in clothing or outward behaviour. It represents a shif…
