A Literary Bridge: Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi's Journey to Connect Bengal's Dalit Literature with the World
5 months ago

A Literary Bridge: Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi's Journey to Connect Bengal's Dalit Literature with the World

The Hindu  

Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi is a passionate academic who has dedicated his life to carrying Dalit voices of Bengal to the world. He has translated more works of Dalit writers in Bengal than anyone else, and he has interviewed several Dalit authors and published them in foreign journals. He is also a strong advocate for Dalit rights and has worked to promote understanding and tolerance between different communities.

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Dalit Literature Festival 2025 in Delhi: Can Words Break the Chains of Caste?
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Dalit Literature Festival 2025 in Delhi: Can Words Break the Chains of Caste?

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 05, 2025 14:33 IST - 6 MINS READ The fourth Dalit Literature Festival began under an overcast sky, with rain-soaked streets and the revolutionary rhythms of Bheem geet filling the air. “We are not here for profit but to amplify the knowledge of the Ambedkarite movement.” Literature for peace The festival featured several bookstalls from smaller publishers, …

The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: Political compulsion denies space for Dalit culture, says Stalin Rajangam
2 months, 1 week ago

The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: Political compulsion denies space for Dalit culture, says Stalin Rajangam

The Hindu  

Writer and historian Stalin Rajangam said though Dalit politics and culture could sail together, political compulsions and electoral politics have denied a space for Dalit culture in politics. “Even those who can acquire a space for Dalit culture in politics are not allowed to do so because it could embarrass the alliance partners,” he said while interacting with Vasuki Bhaskar, …

Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: Dalithan by KK Kochu

Hindustan Times  

Kerala’s story is now part of folklore. Unlike many Pulayas and other Dalit castes who worked in the fields of the Namboodris, Nairs, and Syrian Christians — the dominant castes around whom the historiography and sociology of Kerala is built with even conflicts, disagreements and wars located around the arc of these three communities – Kochu’s father owned a piece …

Two Dalit narratives in Kharge heartland
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Dalit narratives in Kharge heartland

Hindustan Times  

Among the politicians with the highest stakes in the constituencies that go to the polls today is one who is not contesting. Irrespective of the specific type of Dalit identity that was being highlighted, identity politics eroded Kharge’s Dalit-led inclusive politics. His son, Priyank Kharge, has used his position as minister in the Karnataka government to present a much more …

Dalit History: Text and Context Reading and reconstructing Dalit history through Dalit non-fiction
1 year, 2 months ago

Dalit History: Text and Context Reading and reconstructing Dalit history through Dalit non-fiction

The Hindu  

In the session, Stalin Rajangam and G. Gurusamy construct and conceptualise Dalit history through Dalit non-fiction. His writings have contributed to Tamil Subaltern Studies, spotlighting the marginalised and Dalit history. He has won accolades such as the Sparrow Award for Literature and Vilakku Award, solidifying his impact on contemporary Tamil intellectual discourse and cultural awareness. His has written many books, …

‘Activism and writing have helped me grow as a person and become a better human being’
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Activism and writing have helped me grow as a person and become a better human being’

The Hindu  

Saraswathi sees herself as a writer and an activist in equal measures and perceives no dichotomy between the two. Saraswathi’s recent work Beedi Hennu is a translation of Marathi author Baburao Bagul’s groundbreaking work, Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti, gives voice to marginalised sections. Bagul’s collection of short stories, first published in 1963, revolutionized not just Dalit literature but left …

Interview | ‘We want our stories to travel,’ says Dalit writer Dalpat Chauhan
1 year, 11 months ago

Interview | ‘We want our stories to travel,’ says Dalit writer Dalpat Chauhan

The Hindu  

Author, poet and playwright Dalpat Chauhan pens everything he has seen and heard of Dalits in Gujarat — so that the blood-inked tales of oppression aren’t wiped off India’s caste rhetoric. ‘I want to chronicle our history and our resistance, so I use village dialects and bring mythological characters into my works,’ reads his quote in the introduction of Fear …

Book Review: D. Ravikumar’s 'Dalithugalum nilamum' is an account of Dalits and their bond with land
3 years, 4 months ago

Book Review: D. Ravikumar’s 'Dalithugalum nilamum' is an account of Dalits and their bond with land

The Hindu  

T HE Dalit ideologue and writer D. Ravikumar’s Dalithugalum nilamum, published by Manarkeni, is yet another tract that seeks to explain how Dalits, especially Adi Dravidas, were rendered landless in Tamil Nadu. Talking about the reasons behind the historical injustice against Dalits, the author explains how a social system that was alien to the Tamil-speaking region systematically alienated Dalits from …

Studying Dalit history in the 21st century
3 years, 11 months ago

Studying Dalit history in the 21st century

Al Jazeera  

This April, Dalit History Month was once again celebrated by various educational institutions outside India, where special events were held to mark the occasion. Dalit History Month is closely associated with the celebration of the life and work of B R Ambedkar, the eminent Indian scholar, Dalit intellectual and social reformer, who has become a central figure in the Dalit …

Dalit History Month: A Kannada novel decodes Dalit lives
3 years, 11 months ago

Dalit History Month: A Kannada novel decodes Dalit lives

Live Mint  

Running for barely 90 pages in a newly published English translation this month, Karya, a novella by Kannada writer Aravind Malagatti, packs in an entire universe. Set in a Dalit community in north Karnataka, the plot revolves around the third-day rituals involved in the last rites of a local woman. Susheela Punitha’s translation heroically rises to the occasion, grappling with …

Caste Matters author Suraj Yengde: 'There's a new class of global Brahmin of each society'
5 years, 6 months ago

Caste Matters author Suraj Yengde: 'There's a new class of global Brahmin of each society'

Firstpost  

Through the story of his life growing up in a basti, the discrimination Dalits face everyday and the love and creativity that binds the community together, Suraj Yengde challenges many notions in his book Caste Matters. Through the story of his life growing up in a basti, the discrimination Dalits face everyday and the love and creativity that binds the …

Poet reads her Dalit English poetry at Sahitya Akademi
6 years, 8 months ago

Poet reads her Dalit English poetry at Sahitya Akademi

The Hindu  

Aruna Gogulamanda, a Telugu-English poet representing Telugu states had a rare opportunity of presenting her poetry at the Poetry Readings by Dalit Indian English Poets hosted by the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi recently. Ms. Aruna, a native of Tadepalli Gudem in West Godavari was one of the five Dalit English poets including Chandramohan S, Yogesh Wanjari, Cynthia Stephen and …

Dalit movements across India will be a front against hegemonic nationalism
6 years, 11 months ago

Dalit movements across India will be a front against hegemonic nationalism

Hindustan Times  

Once again the debate on caste has collapsed into a predictable numbers game. Dalit mobilisation is at an all-time spontaneous high, and this is the time to foster lateral pan-Indian networks of Dalit resistance Given that Dalit demonstrations and protests have largely happened spontaneously, without any kind of institutional party support, this post-facto waxing eloquent for Dalit interests is all …

Of Dalit life and resistance
9 years, 9 months ago

Of Dalit life and resistance

The Hindu  

Dalit writing in India has come a long way since its beginnings in the late 19th century and its flowering in the closing decades of the 20th. Though Mahadeva’s oeuvre is not big in terms of volume—a long story, a collection of short stories, a volume of essays besides the novel Kusumabale —his impact on the younger generation has been …

Power, violence and Dalit women
12 years, 9 months ago

Power, violence and Dalit women

The Hindu  

The two books under review are quite dissimilar in what they set out to do. Dalit Women SpeakOut comprises a detailed review of a set of related studies carried out in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on the violence endured by Dalit women. It revisits the notion of ‘atrocity' both in terms of specific events, as well …

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