Rukhaya M.K

Rukhaya M.K. is the winner of the Women-Empowered India (WE) Gifted Poet Award 2020and the Reuel International Prize for Poetry 2021. She was listed by IWI as IncredibleWriters of India in 2016, and among 100 Inspiring Muslim Women of Kerala, as part of Rising Beyond The Ceiling, a global initiative. She currently works as Assistant Professor of English, Nehru College Kanhangad,India.

For Manipur

When truth wears the emperor’s new clothes, and nakedness becomes a parade, If civilization began with dressing, we are in retrograde. She is auctioned everyday to corporates, parts of her renamed, only given a parrot voice, You allow anybody to touch