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 …
A young boy and girl drawn to each other by the first rush of physical attraction, both testing social propriety—this has been the basis of numerous love stories on screen and in print. And yet, in the hands of Gujarati Dalit literary icon Dalpat Chauhan, this template takes off on a fiery tangent, one that lacerates the comfort of the …
