About the Author
Dr. Rukhaya Mohammad Kunhi from the PG Department of English, Nehru College Kanhangad is a poet/ critic. A university rank-holder and award-winning writer, she has published her works in national and international anthologies and journals.
She has won accolades in writing including ones from the New Book Society of India, Ekphrasis India, Storymirror.com and the Forgotten Writers’ Foundation, Egypt. She was listed by Yahoo Voices as the Top 1000 voices internationally for the years 2011,2012 and 2013.
Rukhaya is the recipient of the Reuel International Prize for Criticism 2016, for the most promising upcoming critic.
In 2016, she was listed as IWI’s Incredible Women Writers of India.
She was catalogued among the best late Indian 20th century essayists like Arun Shourie, M.J. Akbar, Pankaj Mishra , Arundhati Roy, Amit Chaudhuri, A.K. Ramanujan, etc in the American site humanitiesinstitute.org.
In 2020, she was awarded the Women-Empowered India (WE) Gifted Poet award: Powerful Emergent Voice.
In 2021, she was awarded the Reuel International Prize for Poetry.
In 2022, Rukhaya was listed among the 100 Inspiring Muslim Women of Kerala, as part of Rising Beyond The Ceiling, a global initiative.
She completed her PhD from the Central University of Kerala under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Koyippally on the topic ‘The Poetics of Diaspora in Robert Frost.’
September 11, 2014 at 3:59 am
Nice to find your articles in a dedicated site. Good wishes….and this is very good for a literature lover without literary background. I’ll certainly read some in days to come.
Thanks.
September 11, 2014 at 4:17 am
Thank you so much Sudamji!
October 11, 2014 at 7:41 am
Thank you Rukhaya mam……..for posting the useful articles related to literature…
Mam I really like to appreciate for your sincere / good mind which allow you to spread your valuable knowledge not only to your students but also for all literature learners….Hoping that you will continue this with more articles…..
Anju A
Payyanur College
October 11, 2014 at 9:47 am
Thank you, Anju!
November 17, 2014 at 8:12 am
As of now, I dont have a ‘Donate’ button, but will think of it in the future.’ Do contune with the sharing.
December 10, 2014 at 10:41 am
Thank You Maaam for your valuable and commendable critical analysis of poems and dramas
I am so happy to follow your website
Got more points and notes more than teacher taught me.
Riyaz Yamish
December 10, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Thank you, Riyaz. Glad it helped!
January 5, 2015 at 11:32 am
it really helps mam..thank u
February 3, 2015 at 8:19 am
Happy it helped, Aysha.
February 2, 2015 at 9:57 pm
look what I found when searching for different analysis on Rudyard Kipling’s “IF”.
Had no clue you that have your own website!!
Masha Allah!!
Proud of you 🙂
February 3, 2015 at 8:13 am
Thank you , Shaz 🙂
February 5, 2015 at 11:31 am
I got acquainted with this site quite accidentally. But after going through your study I feel regretted 4 being late. Loved your language and commentary ma’am. Expects more. Wish to you personally.
February 5, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Thanks Bessie!
February 21, 2015 at 7:19 am
Jazakallah ,,, allah may reward you for assistance in this regard.
February 21, 2015 at 7:44 am
wa iyakum, brother…
March 20, 2015 at 4:47 pm
… very insightful criticism of the poems. i am yet to read my favourite poets …could not find kamala das and torudatta, neruda….
kudos to your effort…and if you dont mind my asking…where are you originally from ???
July 14, 2015 at 3:20 am
I am from Kerala. You will find analyses on Kamala Das and Toru Dutt.
July 11, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Very proud to see the feed backs Ma’am. Love you and am glad to say that Am your student….May God Bless you Ma’am
July 14, 2015 at 3:19 am
Thank you Akshaya. God bless you too, dear.
August 13, 2015 at 6:37 am
Im late…..
September 11, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Thanks a lot ma’am. Your site is a very helpful companion for the literature students. Hope u will include the notes about other portions of our syllabi too in this site. Feel proud and happy to say that I’m your student.
September 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm
May God be always with u dear ma’am. Good luck and be happy.
September 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm
God bless you too, Jithya dear…
October 26, 2015 at 7:49 pm
This site is wonderful you are doing a fantastic job . Your critical analyses are just mind blowing. And not to mention it is extremely useful in understanding the various possible allegorical interpretations especially of certain rare poems. It is always nice to have some added insights .Your command of the language , vocabulary and perfect choice of words are like frosting on an already amazing cake . Keep up the marvellous , superb and fabulous work !
looking forward for more ……….
December 27, 2015 at 3:33 pm
To be frank, it is too helpful to get familiar with simple but deep analysis of poems from your pages , not only for students but teachers also. Thanks a lot
February 23, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Hi, i enjoy your articles really much and find it highly reliable. Can I please have the consent to quote from one of your literary analysis articles, and also your full last name so I can give you credits for the quote? Thanks!
February 26, 2016 at 6:02 am
Do quote it as M. K. Rukhaya,such that Rukhaya comes in the in-text citation. Thank you.
November 1, 2016 at 3:17 pm
This is a great effort.Please keep it up!
Prof R.P.Singh
University of Lucknow!
March 13, 2017 at 4:18 am
Thank you, Sir.
February 7, 2017 at 9:07 am
I liked your articulation…It straight with content,Everything is perfectly placed..Best wishes for Future.I am a freelancer and It would be great If u could review my work…
March 13, 2017 at 4:20 am
Thanks!
May 7, 2017 at 4:46 pm
Your analysis is really a good foray in to poetry. Please cover the teachnical aspect of poetry as well.
Thanks!
May 7, 2017 at 4:48 pm
Your analysis is really a good foray in to poetry. Please cover the teachnical aspect of poetry as well.
Thanks!
Arun Singh
Asssistant Prof.
University of Rajasthan
Jaipur.
May 17, 2017 at 3:23 am
Good
July 6, 2017 at 4:47 pm
Dear Rukhaya
Happy to know that you are working at NASC.I have gone through a few of your writings and found it really valuable . I am much more delighted in knowing that you belong to Kasargod.
Myself is Vinod Kumar vetarady
Associate Professor
Department of English
SN College of Management Studies,Periya
August 5, 2017 at 3:59 pm
Thanks a million ma’am for thought provoking critical analyses.
August 26, 2017 at 8:43 am
It is a very useful website. I’m doing post graduation in English literature from IGNOU. I’m a housewife, have two kids..so I have to study myself….your website, the detailed analysis on the poems really helped me understand the poem well. Thank you mam…..hope I could find more on novels, dramas and topics on aspects of language…..
August 30, 2017 at 5:08 am
Appreciable work! Very helpful for a teacher specially.
Arun Singh
University of Rajasthan
Jaipur.
March 2, 2018 at 5:34 pm
It’s great to have such a useful guide for going through much of the works in my MA English
March 3, 2018 at 12:44 pm
Ma’am read your article. Nice and lucid. But you could just add the distinctions between the adult world of the writer against his childhood innocence, especially with reference to the world war.
May 11, 2023 at 2:14 am
Rukhaya, I’m so very grateful to you for the poem that ends…”this my friend is the Kerala Story”. Brilliant and apt! Loved it and love your creativity. Needless to say, in solidarity, Nandu