Dalit Literature: My Own Experience

Historically, in Indian society, Dalit people have been mangled. This has been going on for a very long time. They have been stripped of life’s basic rights in every way. And now, in the crap-shoot that characterizes so many aspects of today’s society, Dalit people’s feelings have been grafted onto the mainstream through literature, as Dalits have begun writing in Tamil, their regional language. But there is still plenty of room to doubt that modern Tamil literati ever really give their full ..