What Others Say



An incisive critique of my play Tara.

mahesh dattani

Fine honour and surely you merited it.

Keki N. Daruwalla (On being awarded the WE Gifted poet Award)

” One can sense echoes of Sylvia Plath…There is much here that announces the arrival of a very talented writer who is committed to
poetry
. “

– E. V. Ramakrishnan –

There are also a whole generation of poets from Kerala who write in English like Ravishanker, Rukhaya M K, AmpatKoshy, Chandramohan, HemaHemambika and others. 

K. satchidanandan

“I am not much into Indian Writing in English, but your review made me want to read that
play.

harish trivedi


Her language, stormy and luminous – the flame and fire held together, is the product of a
beguiling linguistic and aesthetic alchemy arising out of the intermingling of itinerant
personal and political experiences
. ”

ashwani kumar


You are a fine poet. I enjoy your poetry.

kavitha nissim ezekiel


Possesses a creativity that is unmatched. An intelligence that is almost abnormal.”

shajahan madampat


I am honoured to have been the guide of this brilliant scholar, known Indian English poet
and avid writer
.”

dr. joseph koyippally, dean, central university of kerala


A vibrant speaker who can discourse on topics ranging from posthumanism and post-truth to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence to human creativity and issues affecting Muslim women, I have found her to be an academic of limitless range and competence. As a poet, a Sylvia Plath cast in a different mould.”

dr. omer thasneem, university of calicut


Rukhaya carves fire on paper.”

Gargi Sarkhel Bagchi


Rukhaya writes only stunners.”

smeetha bhoumik
founder, women-empowered india; editor, Yugen quest review