dalit literature
“I write with the same hands that carried shit”: Reading Pandiyakannan’s ‘Salavaan’
The Tamil writer Pandiyakannan, the first novelist from the Kuravar community, offers an intimate portrait of the lives of manual scavengers
Ashik Kahina | May 25, 2023
The emerging complexity of Dalit consciousness
The world of Hindi Dalit literature is more than the sum of its stories.
Laura Brueck | Jan 01, 2010
A stage in our name
A translation movement seeks to bring the experience of Adivasi and Dalit writers to the attention of a larger readership.
The Editors | Oct 01, 2009
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