For An Informed Ambedkar Age
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 …