The silver jubilee of the Dalit Lekhak Sangh at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi on August 21. Delhi. | Nikhil Pandhi “We [Dalits] are still always asked, where is your literature, art and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Inspired by Black History Month, Dalit History Month observed every April since 2015 has started to put the spotlight on the lives and contributions of a historically marginalised community. Dalit ...

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 ...

There can be no Dalit emancipation unless Dalits get to write, tell, and perform their own stories. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP via Getty Images) There are a number of striking similarities between caste ...

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 ...

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.

Lucknow: Dalit literature plays a key role in making people aware about problems being faced by marginalized sections and how social justice can be proved as a remedy. This was a unanimous call by ...

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.

More focus on Dalit literature was needed and a proper forum should be established for Dalit writers, said former IAS officer P. Sivakami at a press meet held on Thursday, ahead of the Dalit Literary ...