For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Chanchal Kumar The critic Walter Benjamin, talking about a piece of literature, says that the truth content of the work becomes more relevant only if it is bound up with its subject matter “inconspicuously and intimately”. If we go by this explanation then Loknath Yashwant’s volume places a mirror to us, in order that …
Chanchal Kumar Chandramohan Sathyanathan’s poems are “plus-sized”, his poetry comes “without introduction or foreword from veterans”. By thus asserting their uniqueness and difference from the writing of his peers, he claims the historical tradition that harks back to the culture of writing of which Namdeo Dhasal is a major name, and for him personally, …
Dr. Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy Valedictory Speech delivered at Vidrohi Sahitya Sammelana held on 24-12-2017 in Shahada, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra Hon. President of the Sammelana, the dignitaries on the Dais and the august literary audience before me. I am extremely happy to be present here today for two reasons. One is my poems are getting published …
Yogesh Maitreya Dalit poetry in Maharashtra has been recently going through a transition. However, there are only a few poets who have managed to catch this transition in their poems. Some of them turned inward and explored the subject matter of their personal conflicts with the world. Others have managed to make the dialectical …
Umar Nizar The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, in his customary impish fashion rephrases Heidegger’s oft-quoted dictum that ‘language is the house of being’ as ‘language is the torture-house of being.’ For him there is no genocide without poetry. Sugathakumari, a major Malayalam poet, and winner of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, …
ರಹಮತ್ ತರೀಕೆರೆ (Rahamat Tarikere) ನಮ್ಮ ನಡುವಿನ ಪ್ರತಿಭಾವಂತ ಕವಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬರಾಗಿದ್ದ ಎನ್.ಕೆ. ಹನುಮಂತಯ್ಯ (1974-2010), ಸಾಯಬಾರದ ವಯಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸತ್ತು ಆರು ವರ್ಷಗಳಾದವು. ಈಗಲೂ ಅವರ ನೆನಪು ಹಸಿಯಾಗಿಯೇ ಕಾಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. ‘ಸಂಬಂಧ’ಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಭಾಳಿಸಲಾಗದೆ ನೈತಿಕ ಬಿಕ್ಕಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಲುಕಿ, ಗೆಳೆಯರಿಗೆ ಸಿಗದೆ ಓಡಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗಲೂ, ಫೋನಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಮಾತಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಅಳುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗಲೂ, ಈ ಬಿಕ್ಕಟ್ಟಿನಿಂದ ಅವರು ಪಾರಾಗಿ ಬರುವರೆಂದೇ ಭಾವಿಸಿದ್ದೆವು. ಆದರೆ ಅವರ ಸಾವಿನ ಕೆಟ್ಟಸುದ್ದಿ ಒಂದು ದಿನ ಬಂದು ಬಡಿಯಿತು. ನೋವಿನ ಜತೆ ಆಕ್ರೋಶವೂ ಬಂದಿತು. ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕಾವ್ಯ …
Essay 3. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy If I was a tree The bird wouldn’t ask me Before it built its nest What caste I am. ~ Anti-caste literature from members of the outcastes and lower castes in Karnataka has a very long history. The phrase Dalit literature is often …
Dr. Sunil Abhiman Awachar [Recently, the painting exhibition of Dalit artist/painter Dr. Sunil Abhiman Awachar was held in February 2016 at the ‘International Conference on Voices of the Oppressed and the Marginalised’ in Mehsana, Gujarat. It was organised by the Social Justice Department, Government of Gujarat, and ICSSR, New Delhi. The title of his …
Yogesh Maitreya The Sun that was leaked, Being dimmed Into the bosom of the night, Then I was born On footpath… ~ Namdeo Dhasal It was a nippy and brooding winter of 2011 in Nagpur; I was in second year of Bachelor’s degree. Books, especially poetry and novels became the sole escape from material …