Dalit Literature From A Different Point Of View, Indian And English Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dalit literature means the literature
Of the oppressed and the suppressed,
Means whose rights have been infringed upon,
politically, socially, economically not,
Humanistically,
Neglected and ignored as human beings.

Was there not the Reign of Terror in France,
Did they not eliminate Louis XVI,
Did Lenin and the Bolsheviks not eliminate
The Czar and the Czarina,
Was there not chaos during the Janata Dal in India
Trying to bifurcate India
As for political ends?

Harishchandra's workings as a chandal
on the burning ghats,
Ananda's love for Chandalika,
Guru Nanak's prayers,
Kabir's Ram-naam learning from Ramanand,
Eklavya's cutting of the thumb as gurudakshina
Demanded by inhuman and compelled Dronacharya,
All these tell tales.

Gandhi's Harijanodhar,
Nirala's Bharat Ki Ek Vidhwa,
Jayanta Mahaptra's references to the dark daughters
In his Relationship,
Gautam Buddha's tryst with the Mundamala Dacoit,
Ratnakar Dacoit's exploits and turning into a saint
And the resultant transformation
Tell many a thing said or unsaid.

Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! ,
Tennyson's The Beggar Maid,
Blake's The Little Black Boy and London,
John Bunyan's He That Is Down Needs No Fear Fall,
Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
And the selling of the wife in drunkenness
And his own remarriage with a teenage girl,
Are the pother things of reckoning.