Adorning A Pluralist Cultural Identity To Win "The Right To Be Ordinary" in Imtiaz Dharker's Poetry

The twenty-first-century South Asian diasporic women poets break free from age-old kyriarchal traditions that bound them from living an ordinary life at par with men of the same socio-cultural milieu. Even though the highly-applauded fall of patriarchal norms raised the veil from women's heads, per se, it still does not permit them to live freely without interruptions of social disparities. Thus, while the South Asian women poets raise their pen and lend their voice to dissent, the kyriarchy prevails even today. In addition, Imtiaz Dharker, a Scottish Muslim Calvinist, as she calls herself has wonderfully portrayed the issues o f women's exploitation and their reclamation of identity in her poetry without being dogmatic and prosaic. The main aim of this qualitative research is to bring forth her approach towards the cultural discourse that reflects her pluralised cultural identity, which runs throughout her work, thereby lending a transnational metaphor to women's struggle in breaking free from kyriarchy to embrace an ordinary life and relegate conformism.