For An Informed Ambedkar Age
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 …
A brief note on Dalit literary movements in Maharashtra Daisy Katta Revolutions are stirred on paper and are born out of pens and inks. Revolutionary movement categorically uproots the very being of an accepted thought and tries to negate, challenge, eradicate social evils, thus creating an atmosphere of non-conformity. Literature is a vehicle for …
Gurinder Azad गुरिंदर आज़ाद शुक्रिया बाबा साहेब !आपके चलतेहमें किसी से कहना नहीं पड़ताकि हम भी इंसान हैं ! उनके अहं को जो भी हो गवारालेकिन अब तस्दीक हो चुका हैकि बराबरी थाली में परोस कर नहीं मिलतीआबरू की धारा किसी वेद से नहीं निकलतीबड़ा बेतुका हैकल्पना करके सोनासुबह अलग सा कोई नज़ारा होगाया …
Eminent Marathi poet Namdeo Dhasal passed away today (January 15th, 2014). This is the collective tribute of a group of Round Table India writers. ~ Here-in the distanceRevolution rumbles everywhereYou hear it? His poetry did not belong to the pages, for neat archiving in some anthology. It had trees, but they were leafless. It …
Rajeev R Singh A unique collection of Hindi poetry was launched in Delhi. It’s the 1st ever collection of poetry about the lives and struggles of Dalit & Adivasi women – by 65 young poets of the democratic tradition. (Editors: Anita Bharti & Bajrang Bihari Tiwari). There was a different kind of excitement and …
Comments on Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing (Part I) P. Dayanandan (Paper presented on 10th April, 2012 on the occasion of the release of the Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing) • I congratulate Ravikumar, Azhagarsan and Mini for bringing Dalit thoughts to English language readers at large. A quick look at Ravi’s …
G K Vankar It is difficult to say when first Gujarati Dalit writing came into existence. But undoubtedly the publication of Aakrosh, a poetry journal of Dalit Panthers, on 14th April, 1978, was an important milestone. The anti-reservation agitations in Gujarat in 1981 and 1985 generated intense awareness about dalit rights and led to a …