Tamil Dalit writer (L) Bama and her translator Lakshmi Holmström. Added to such distinctions of “high” and “low” or scriptural, literary, and colloquial, there are nuances of caste that constitute ...
The history of modern Dalit literature has its origins in Maharashtra. It is here that the first Dalit writers’ conference was held, which eventually led to the Dalit Panthers movement. Eleanor ...
NEW DELHI: The fourth edition of the Dalit Literature Festival (DLF) is set to be held between February 28 and March 1 at Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi (South Campus). The theme for this ...
With these halting words the urbane, educated protagonist of Ajay Navaria’s short story “New Custom” steps gingerly into a tabooed region of South Asian social life, a terrain as disturbing to the ...
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HYDERABAD: Modelled along the lines of Black history month, April has been designated as Dalit history month. The idea is to present an alternative history from the dominant upper caste narratives, ...
Years ago during a trip to the US, filmmaker Pa. Ranjith visited the The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and was stunned. Under one roof, the museum captured not ...
Memory, author Yogesh Maitreya writes, is the only thing that cannot be taken from Dalits, Indian’s at the bottom of the hierarchical social structure born into a lifetime of discrimination.
I founded the Panther’s Paw Publication in 2016, a year after I got my Master’s degree from TISS, Mumbai. At that point, I neither had money, nor publishing capital in terms of working knowledge.
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee formed the Dalit Sahitya Academy on Monday in an effort to promote Dalit literature.Chaired by noted Dalit writer Manoranjan Byapari, the 14-member committee of ...
The Kannada literary world, which was one-sided until the 70s and 80s became more holistic by Dalit and Bandaya literature, said Kendra Sahitya Academy awardee writer Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy. Speaking ...
These quotes have been selected from the article “Short Story in Gujarati Dalit Literature” by Rita Kothari, which outlines the historical circumstances that produced Gujarati Dalit literature and ...
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