Societal Awareness And Reform Through Poetry: A Study Of Menka Shivdasini’s Safe House

Abstract

Menka Shivdasini is a Mumbai based poet and journalist. Her poem collection Safe House abounds in references to the sad circumstances and limitations faced by women in contemporary society. By viewing first hand as a journalist she is able
to reach numerous women in real life and assess their sufferings and circumstances that lead to their suffering and sometimes tragic end. The social evils that continue to follow women and that either suppress them in the bud or nip them from growing is the subject of several poems in this poem collection and these form the subject of the current study