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Claiming the English language as a Dalit poet

April 17, 2021 9:25 am

It challenges existing notions about who can write English poetry in India, affords access to a wider readership and helps create a springboard for anti-caste linguistic and cultural praxis

The Poet and His Underworld

January 27, 2014 2:59 pm

In Golpitha, whose darkness nourished Namdeo Dhasal’s poetry and politics, he is remembered as the man who taught the marginalised to fight back.

'Poet of the Underworld' Namdeo Dhasal passes away at 64

January 15, 2014 1:25 pm

In 2007, Amitabh and Salman had helped raise funds for Dhasal whose family was on the verge of selling their house to pay his medical bills.

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