{"id":12901,"date":"2021-01-25T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12901"},"modified":"2024-07-24T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:04:18","slug":"n-r-pillai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/n-r-pillai\/","title":{"rendered":"N.R. Pillai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>N.R. Pillai is the nom de plume of Namitha Rathinappillai, a spoken word artist turned published poet. She was still an undergraduate at Carleton University when she published her first chapbook in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dirty Laundry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa: Battleaxe Press, 2018. (reprinted in 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoken word artist N.R. Pillai\u2019s debut chapbook collection, \u201cDirty Laundry,\u201d unapologetically honours the strength of the women of Sri Lanka, that of all women, and her own strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/nhannawriting.wordpress.com\/\">Battleaxe Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sturrock, Maisie. Dirty Laundry by N.R. Pillai:A Journey From Spoken Word Artist to Published Author. <em>Her Campus at Carleton<\/em>, 8 December 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/carleton\/dirty-laundry-nr-pillai-journey-spoken-word-poet-published-author\">https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/carleton\/dirty-laundry-nr-pillai-journey-spoken-word-poet-published-author<\/a>. Accessed 25 January 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.R. Pillai is the nom de plume of Namitha Rathinappillai, a spoken word artist turned published poet. She was still an undergraduate at Carleton University when she published her first chapbook in 2018. Poetry (Chapbook) Dirty Laundry Ottawa: Battleaxe Press, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/n-r-pillai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":92,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12903,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12901\/revisions\/12903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}