Violence-Pandemic Afflicting Women Lives: A Critical Study of Gendered Violence in Indian Women Poetry

A most unfortunate and deplorable facet of human civilization is that even till the 21st century, barbaric multi-dimensional violence against women continues to  plague women’s  lived existence across globe .Violence is a part and parcel of Women’s  World and Word. Indian women poets have also given a succinct and intense expression to the multi-layered gendered violence afflicting the personal and community life of women. This paper takes up a perusal of various representations of violence in the poetic corpus of Indian women poets. It also explores the intersectionality between class , caste, religion and gender-violence.