The most transgressive and honest voice in Indian poetry. Das wrote about the female body, desire, marriage's suffocations, and spiritual longing with a directness that scandalized Indian literary society and opened space for generations of women writers. "An Introduction" is one of the great confessional poems of the 20th century: "I am every woman who seeks love, I am the eternal slave."

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.