Dalit Literature, The Non-Dalit Writing, How Can It Be? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dalit literature,
The non-Dalit writing it
For making fame,
How can it be?

Dalit literature is
Of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits.

The word Dalit
Should not be misinterpreted,
As our India was ismic,
Regressed into.

Medievalism cost it much,
The nocturnal and the unknowable
Misled it
While making a tryst with.

The ethnicity and nativity
Gave a tougher time
In coming to comprehension
The caste and society of India.

Each and every caste had
Some sub-castes
And it was difficult
To come to terms.