Literature is one of the most popular and forceful mediums to represent and articulate the cultural aspects of a particular society in a unique linguistic model. Meena Kandasamy, one of the most outstanding women poets from south of India has won laurels in depicting the age-old evil of casteism in the Hindu society in her poems Her collection of poems Touch ,brings into fore the trauma of being a member of a low caste or untouchable in an idiom of speech that breaks usual form and structure of the main stream English poetry in India. She attacks the age old division of castes in Hindu society in which one is born low and subjugated to serve the upper caste people in the most inhuman way. Her poems expose the hypocrisy behind such discriminations under the garb of religion and culture and debunks the irrationality of such attitudes. An upper caste Brahmin can marry a lower caste woman and can enjoy the respect in the society but a lower caste man or woman is bound to live a life of misery and dishonour owing to the stigma of being a lower caste. Her poems take a dig at such social and cultural practice and makes a call to resist .oppose and revolt against such social and cultural restrictions that pass off well in the name of religion and culture. Her poetry is a cry against the atrocities put forth towards the people of lower caste, itis not just a voice for the voiceless millions who suffer simply born in the families of the untouchables, it challenges the tenets of religion that betrays the natural laws of humanity and brotherhood and spreads hatred and indignation. Her poems like "Touch"," Advaita", "Becoming a Brahmin" "Dignity" read like a short treatise of social activism.