Culture > “I write with the same hands that carried shit”: Reading Pandiyakannan’s ‘Salavaan’

Pandiyakannan insisted that one can only write as he does from actual experience with manual scavenging. “When I write,” he said, “I use the same hands that have carried shit.” Illustration by Akila Weerasinghe

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