Dalit Matters, Dalit Things (A Peep Into The Dalit World) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dalit Matters, Dalit Things (A Peep Into The Dalit World)

Preface
I do not know it why I have titled and re-titled, added and re-added them at one place renaming them as thus, re-titling it so. I do not know what it is the reason behind this rechristening. Actually I wanted to present them at one place so that you might see them at a glance.
While writing the tagged volume, several things conjure upon the mind's plane, Charles Lamb's chimney sweepers, William Blake's description of London and the prostitute and the new born baby crying and the little black boy, Gray's elegy and so on. Adil Jussawalla's Ekalavya we have not forgotten and it is really a very fine poem from him. So can be on Karna. Kabira's life there before us to see. Kabira lying on the steps of the ghats of Benares for to get a touch of his feet and it strikes too with the taking of Ram naam and that turns into the beeja mantra of his. Mira's prem, Krishnabhakti, what it to say about the her company with sadhus, fakirs and minstrels which the royals took to it not in a good sense, finally her a cup of poison to drink, but the Divine let it not happen.
While talking about Dalit matters, I cannot check myself from writing about Tagore's Chandalika, really a superb play to take us with feeling and emotion and thinking to do it later on. Sudama's love shown through the rice grains given to Krishna, we cannot forget it. So is the love of Sabri for Lord Rama winning over his heart with her plums. King Harischandra working as a chandal on the burning ghats has always eluded us, won our praise for his truthfulness, be he a king or not, the duty must be done, the order of the master must be carried.
The love of the Tamil teacher and his wife for their student A.P.J.Kalam and the invitation to take food into their home, we love to read it. We also love to hear about the folktales of Jejuri and Balaji. Raskhan and Jayasi, we admire them most. Had Dara been the king, it would have been great, but Aurangzeb came it to be.
In Dalit literature, we also talk about the Patita, Devadasi, but the reality is this she was not a Devadasi, but we made her so. Ghumtawalli, Purdahwalli, Burkhawalli, three characters, protagonists, spokesmen, dramatic personae of women studies, gender studies, drama studies, how to take to them and elucidate?
Sometimes the things of generation gap maraud it the self, sometimes the things of gender bias and inequality, sometimes poverty and underdevelopment. Bharat Ki Garib Bitia, how to tell you your tell? Dalit Kanya, how to allude to your experiences? Patita, who says it that you are Patita? How to photograph and do it Kanyadaan? A drunkard's house, how to describe it? The light has extinguished, people are grovelling in darkness. A drunkard's family knows it what it being in the wards and issues of those who take to drinking so hard. How do they sell wives? Thomas Hardy can say it. Devadas's Chandramukhi, who has ever striven to know his pains, the pains of his broken heart? The palaces and pillars too weep in seeing the pains of the masters and royals madly in love after. For this Edward VIII abandoned his British throne for a woman. Sometimes it pains in coming to know about eh last czars and the French kings. Carlyle describes it beautifully.
The pain inflicted upon the kronch birds by the falconer too is but another point telling of aboriginal cruelty and hunting and poetry born out of the pain of the female bird for the killed male bird and finally both are killed. King Sivi's sacrifice too cannot be let it go from being referred to whom he resisted from giving the wounded bird tot eh falconer fallen into his complex. Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie, we still remember it Anand with Mahatma Gandhi, showing the texts to his mentor for to intermix hardstand Marxism with socialism.
What it to say about the addicts and drunkards staggering and lying fallen on the footpaths, giving away? Where our Vriddhashrama? Where is it Golden Vrindavana? Where the Gandhi Sevashrama? Where Patita Ashrama? Where the drug rehabilitation centres? Who to understand it dukkha-darda, pain-sorrow? Unwed mothers, single mothers, how to cope up with? How to be sympathetic to divorcees?
The poor ass, how has it been abandoned by the master in this age of mechanization, commercialization? How the poor animals turned jobless and masterless in this age of laundries? There was a time when they used to serve in between the ghats and the homes taking the unwashed clothes to water banks and again bringing it the washed clothes followed by the master.
The last of all, I think it, how did Dadhichi donate his bones to the gods? There is also something in sacrifice.
Dalit matters, Dalit things,
A peep into their world,
Mud houses,
Dingy, congested, overpopulated,
Poverty's children go it naked,
Half-fed, half-fed
Playing with dust and clay,
Living on juthan, baasi food

-------- Bijay Kant Dubey

What Does Dalit Signify It?


Dalit, Dalit is a word signifying
What is it trodden, suppressed, oppressed
And exploited and tortured,
The poorly downtrodden, have-nots, the exploited,
To whom social justice needs to be given
Or who has not got it social, economic justice
And for whom my heart beats for.

Caste, Class, Creed And Dalit Literature

Dalit literature,
This is possible in India,
In Indian context only,
Not at all applicable to English literature
Though the stories of oppression and suppression
Are spread worldwide.

Dalit as a word means trodden,
Pada-dalit, leg-trodden,
Downtrodden and proletarian,
Oppressed and suppressed,
But here in connection with caste and class in India,
Ethnically and racially vast and varied.

Dalit is but Harijan in the eyes of Mahatma Gandhi,
Hari's jans, people, God's people,
They are not untouchables, but the Harijans,
God's people,
A scheduled caste man too can be a saint
As the origin of the river and the caste of the saint
Can never be questioned.

A Lover Of A Dalit Girl

A lover of a Dalit girl
Am I
As have I known it
After loving her,
Knowing her heart and soul,
The same woman
With the same love
A lover of a Dalit girl
Have I what it in her heart,
In her soul,
Let love be love
So full of sympathy,
Bonding and attachment.

Dalit Literature, Let Them Write, You Write It Not

Dalit literature, let them write,
You write it not,
The story of their life,
The narratives and anecdotes
Of their own,
They themselves.


Their things you interpret them not
As for your Ph.D. and the scale jump
And the books to author,
The papers to read in seminars
As resource persons and seminarians,
Dalit literature, let them write,
Write you not.

Let them say the way they want to express in,
Dalit literature of the Dalits,
Not the non-Dalits
Doing the business from.


Dalit's Case, Why Are They Handling?

Dalit's case, why are they handling,
Dalit's matter, why are they taking up,
Let them take up and say
Rather than them
Who just want to come to the fore
Using their names,
Utilizing their stuffs,
Narratives and anecdotes?

O, I smell a rat,
They are stooping to conquer!

Dalit Literature, Should It Come Up From The Dalits Or The Non-Dalits?


Dalit literature, should it come up from
The Dalits or the non-Dalits,
Whose prerogative is it to lodge
Or voice the protest,
That of the Dalits or the non-Dalits?

But some non-Dalits, just for their promotional benefit
In the office sector
Are promoting the Dalit literature
At the cost of making a name,
Which is not good at all for morality sake.

A Dalit's voice are we hearing
Or an interpreter's version?
If it is of the Dalits, let them say,
Let them voice and lodge their protests
Instead of the middle men shedding crocodile's tears.



Did Adi Shankarachayra Not See Shiva In Kangal Rupa? (Context Is Of Dalit Literature)

Did Adi Shankaracharya not see Shiva
As a kangal boy
In the disguise
Just a small naked black boy,
Half-fed and half-clothed,
Hungry, thirsty and beggarly
Going with a dog?


Dalit Literature From A Different Point Of View, Indian And English


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.


Krishna Asking Yasada, Why Is Radha Fair And He Darkly? (Interpreting Dalit Literature Otherwise)

Krishna asking his foster mother,
More important than his own mother,
As she did it for for the child's sake
Whereas his own mother could not,
Whatever be the circumstances,
I am not going to discuss it,
But Yasoda did for him
Is a fact,
'Why is Radha fair and he darkly? '


He Is Reading A Paper On Dalit Literature

He is reading a paper on Dalit literature,
Do you know why,
Just for to get the promotion
From the assistant professor to the associate scale
Not, but now the pay band
Top the disco jockey professor rank,
After that you move about
In a hat?



What Is Dalit Literature? What The Agenda Behind, What The Motto?


Those who want to promote Dalit literature,
May I ask,
Are they themselves
Or the problems and concerns of them?
What the agenda, what the motto behind,
Are they for the Dalits
Or for themselves
Like the backwards of Indian politics
Talking of reservation
And seeking to sit on chair
After instigating the unemployed youths
To burn on the streets
By pushing the country into the civil war,
Partitioning India as per caste, creed and sect lines
Between Backward India and Forward India,
Murdering genius?

Dalit Literature, The Non-Dalit Writing About & Profiting From

Dalit literature,
The non-Dalit writing about
To be benefited from
The stuffs and matters of the Dalits,
Holding lectures and seminars and symposia
To be promoted from
The assistant to the associate professor
To the professor rank,
But the same Dalit oppresserd and suppressed
For years
Remaining the same Dalit,
The downtrodden have-nots, the untouchables
And the professors pocketing money
From handsome pay bands and pay packets
And the U.G.C. funding.


Dalit Poetry

Dalit poetry,
Found I in the fisherman's home,
The fisherman working all daylong,
From early in the morning,
Casting nets,
Catching fish
And putting into the weal.

Dalit poetry,
Found I in the cobbler's home,
Working from dawn to dusk,
Doing the leather work
At the city centre
Or the town square
By the footpath
Or on the platform,
Polishing the boots.

Dalit poetry,
Found I in viewing the gipsy girls,
Ill-clad and ill-clothed,
Asking for alms
Into the train bogies,
Holding the shoes
Or legs,
Cleaning the compartments
And asking for money.
Dalit poetry,
Found I in marking the washermen
And they going to the ghat
As for to wash clothes
And return back home late in the afternoon,
Exhausted and done with
And the ass too bearing the brunt.

Dalit poetry,
Found I in seeing them driven out of homes,
The old and the pensioners
When came they
The new members in the house,
The son turning into a bad son,
Which but the mother cannot generally.

Dalit poetry,
Found I in reservation,
The protesters and demonstrators
Doing self-immolation
And the rustic fellows,
The buffoons, clowns and scoffers
As the ministers stood they
Instigating and provoking
As for chair.

Dalit poetry,
Found I in watching the scavenger women
Going to throw off human excreta,
In the tin takers
Placed overheard or on the wheelbarrow,
They chewing paan
And going away
In toil, sweating and heat of the day
To the municipal garbage heap,
Where vats are cleared.


Dalit Literature


Literature is literature,
What it to do with Dalit or un-Dalit?
If it is really of the Dalits, by the Dalits and for the Dalits,
Why are they critiquing it
For to be the famed non-Dalit critic
Of the Dalit things?

Just for to take the credit,
The non-Dalits advocating their case
Call themselves
The well-wishers of the Dalits,
Let them write their own history,
Influence them not,
Whatever be their feelings and experiences.


For That Poor Dalit Girl

Beats it the heart,
You do not know it,
How much do I love her,
How much I like her?


The Dalit Priestess Of My Heart

When I see nobody as to light
The incense sticks and the lamp
In my room for worship,
I ask the Dalit girl working
As the maid
To light the lamp and the sticks,
What in her lighting
If she does it so soulfully
After taking a bath.
Sometimes time gets important,
Sometimes situations compel one
And what is more important is bhakti,
Sometimes the call of the duty demands it so.



The Politics Of Dalit Literature, The Politics Of Brahmin Literature, I Could Not, Could Not

The politics of Dalit literature,
The politics of Brahmin literature,
How to discuss it
Who from where,
Who has what in mind
And above all, the intention of pseudo-scholars
I could not, could not?


That Poor Dalit Girl

I saw her smiling
In the hamlet
Playing with dust,
Under the sun
Unmindful of
What she had,
What had not,
Playing with dust
Under the strong sun
That poor girl,
Poor Dalit girl
Into the hamlet,
Hamlet home
And the courtyard
All around the place,
The open space adjacent to it
That Dalit girl,
Poor Dalit girl
Half-fed,
Half-fed and half-clothed,
The child,
Child of poverty
Smiling,
Smiling sweetly.


Dalit, Dalit Literature

Dalit, Dalit literature,
The literature of the Dalits
By the Dalits or other than
Representing,
Of the Dalits, for the Dalits, by the Dalits
Writing their own history,
Their experiences,
Thoughts and ideas,
Memoirs and recollections
In novels, stories, essays, notes,
diaries, anecdotes, sketches, poems
Literature, the literature of Dalits,
The Dalits
Telling about the compulsions of this life,
Narrating untouchability
In a diverse multi-ethnic, racial and linguistic society
Of variations,
The rigidity of the caste system,
Economic ad social disparity,
But which is whose guilt,
Who can but say it
As we were poor, undeveloped and uneducated?


I Have Heard So Much, Gandhi Was A Racist, Anti-African, Anti-Dalit, Such And Such (Keeping In View Gandhian Criticism)

Now stop you saying,
Stop you,
If you have to say,
Say you
Showing grounds
Of your study.

But say you not
He was anti-African,
Anti-Dalit.
I accept it Gandhi was bad,
But say,
Say you,
Are you good?

What Does The Word Dalit Mean?

My first point is,
What does the term,
Dalit
Mean it,
Dalit,
Dalit?

The word,
Dalit,
Dalit means
Pada-dalit,
Trodden,
Foot-trodden,
Crushed,
Crushed and exploited.

Dalit,
Dalit means
Have-nots,
Have-nots,
Poor and weaker
Sections
Of society.

Dalit,
Dalit the exploited,
Dalit,
Dalit the used one,
Dalit,
Dalit the tortured self
Of man.

What Is Dalit Literature? Do You Know?

What is Dalit literature?
The literature dealing with the Dalits,
The Dalit people,
Their life and culture,
Dalit Dalit,
Downtrodden, fallen and living
Below the poverty line
Under impoverished circumstances.

Dalit is Dalit, what it lies marginalized,
Suppressed and oppressed,
Exploited and used,
Dalit, Dalit literature
Of the Dalits, by the Dalits, for the Dalits,
Not of the non-Dalits
And even if they are, they are for taking benefits,
But political Dalits I shall not support
Nor shall I side with the Brahmins,
But all are not bad, mind it.

Dalit history, art and culture, let them,
Come you not in between,
Let them, let them write their own history,
Let them, let them tell their own culture,
Come you not for doing doctorates on
Dalit stoics to make a name and fame,
Let them, let them their own matters,
Their biography, autobiography, narrative,
Song, lyric and dramas.

Dalit Literature, Dalit Literature

Dalit literature, Dalit literature,
I hear the people saying,
The people I mean the academics,
Specially the scholars
Of the varsity campuses
Always in a hunt for topics,
But before they went away
They did not clear it,
What they meant,
Meant by Dalit literature
And for what they got interested
All of a sudden,
For promotion or virgin research
Or for grants,
Why had, had they been not before,
What the matter behind their sudden interest?

None thinks about the Dalits,
None about their upliftment,
Social development and welfare,
Economic prosperity and dependence,
All but after paper publications,
Books, workshops and seminars
As for to highlight themselves
Not them, the Dalits,
All for grants and aids for researches
Not about their welfare truly,
Just for fellowships and projects to bring,
Dalit literature of the Dalit people
Downtrodden and exploited people,
Let them, let their own history,
Write you not their tales of misery and pity.


Dalit Poetry, Dalit Matter

Dalit poetry
Of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits.

A matter of the Dalits,
Let them.


Dalit Literature, Of The Dalits, By The Dalits, For The Dalits Or It?

Dalit literature
Of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits
Or it not
Other than this
By other people
Who belong
To the category not,
The non-Dalits writing
The history of the Dalits
Is not the thing,
But their experiences,
Feelings,
Tortures,
Humiliations borne
Let them,
Let them
Write,
Write it
Their narratives
Fictional,
Non-fictional
In poetry,
Prose,
Plays,
Let them,
let them
Debate,
Debate and discuss
Their own,
Own things
Personal,
Personal and private,
But politicize,
Politicize you not
Please.

Dalit literature,
Dalit literature of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits,
Dalits, Dalits, Dalits,
Only Dalits
And let them,
Let them write
Their own narratives,
Let them,
Let them
Their own
Poetry,
Drama,
Story,
Novel,
Essays,
Prose-pieces
But without prejudice
And hatred.

Dalit literature of the Dalit men,
Dalit things,
The have-nots,
Lack of resources,
Scarcity of things,
Poverty and pain,
Poorer living and circumstance
Downtrodden and impoverished
Under the hunger of the belly,
bread and butter problem,
Housing problem.


Why Are You After The Dalit?

Why are you after the Dalits,
Let them live,
Live,
Have a life of own,
Why to intercept and interrupt them?


Dalit Girl Calling Me

Dalit girl calling,
Calling me
With love,
Love,
Dalit girl,
Dalit gir
Meeting me
In the temple of heart,
Heart,
Dalit girl,
Dalit girl, my love.


Dalit, Dalit, Searching The Theme Reached I To The Widows, Poor Women And Daughters Of India

Dalit,
Dalit,
Who a Dalit,
Searching the theme
Found I,
I them really
Dalit, Dalit,
The widows,
Poor women and daughters
Of India
Whose income is very low
And they unable to maintain themselves.

Dalit, Dalit, Dalit Poetry, The Notes Of Pain, Dalit As The Women, Daughters And Children

Dalit, Dalit,
Have you,
You ever tried to know,
Know the meaning
Dalit,
Dalit,
Pada-dalit,
Trodden, downtrodden,
Crushed under feet?

Dalit, Dalit,
Oh, the pain in the word,
Rakes,
Rakes my heart
And I,
I feel the pain
Aching.

Who,
Who actually a Dalit,
A Dalit,
Downtrodden and crushed
Under feet,
Have you,
Have you?
The woman, the child,
The daughter,
Dalit, Dalit.

It Is Good To Be Sympathetic To The Dalit Issue, But There Are Many Points Undiscussed Too


Something is definitely admirable
And human in them,
But something is vehemently sociological
Which but you cannot
If get you not trapped in.

After mixing with, you will come to know
How obstinate and arrogant,
Superstitious and cruel and callous
Are they.

As they know it not the language
of the heart,
But of the body
As they like to go for a kill
And drink.

Once I could not compromise with
As for the beautiful water bird
Trapped by a blackly scavenger
And he relished upon
After killing the blackly, but striped white bird.

Another time had a tougher deal with the Santhals
On the killing spree
And the wild cat lying bewildered
Near my garden
And they hooting to hit
With arrows.

Accept you it or not
There is something in culture too
If scrutinized closely
As the Aryans have tried abstain from
Wine, marijuana and hemp
To some extent.

But the scheduled caste and tribe culture
Has always inspired them
Without taking food,
Going for the kill,
Preying upon
Or fishing all that.

How do the, kill the pigs,
It will astonish you,
With stones, sticks,
Rods and arrows
The black pig running
For an escape and cover?

Dalit Literature, What Is Dalit Literature?


Dalit literature. What is Dalit literature? Who is writing whose literature?

What the theme? What the matter? The crux of it? The politics behind it.

Dalit literature is of the Dalits, by the Dalits, for the Dalits. Can literature be as such?

Or, should it have been Harijan literature? The Harijans as untouchables not allowed to enter the temples. Gandhiji too pushed behind by the temple pandas in his attempt to let them be allowed.


Dalit Literature, How Has Love Grown For?


There had not been,
But all of a sudden how has love grown
For Dalit literature,
Is it for dissertations?

Dalit literature by the Dalits
Or the non-Dalits
Or can literature be restricted to
Any class, sect or community?

Mind it,
Literature is literature,
Has not any bearing upon.


Dalit Literature, What The Motto Behind, How The Agenda Of It?

Dalit literature,
Dalit literature,
Of the Dalits, by the Dalits or for the Dalits,
A Dalit writing about a Dalit
Or a non-Dalit too,
First answer you my question,
By the Dalit only or by non-Dalit too
As the emotion is same,
What the agenda,
What the motto behind,
I mean,
Who the manager, director, script writer,
The commercial dealer
Of the script of the play
And the theatre
And the poor Dalit girl playing the role
In soliloquies and monologues?

Thank you,
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
The audience, the readers,
Thank you, thank you!


That Dalit Girl

Too is my daughter-like
How can I negate it
From accepting,
That poor, unprivileged,
Below the poverty-line,
Working girl?
She is just like
My daughter, my daughter,
An India that you have not known,
Known for so long.

Dalit Poetry, Dalit Drama, Dalit Prose, Dalit Fiction


Dalit poetry,
Dalit drama,
Dalit fiction,
Dalit prose,
The literature of the downtrodden,
Crushed down,
Trampled,
Rights denied.

The literature of the oppressed and suppressed,
Exploited and tortured,
The have-nots,
The unresourced,
The poor and the weak
And neglected,
But why are they,
I cannot say?

Chandalika's Heart A Dalit Heart Beating For Ananda

Chandalika
In love with Ananda
The Boddha Bhikku,
Waiting for
His arrival
One blazing Baisakh.


Dalit, Dalit, Dalitization Of Literature

Dalit, Dalit, this Dalitization of literature
Like I not
As for unnecessary politicization,
Say you,
What Dalit, what unDalit?


Dalit, Dalit, What Is This Nonsense?

Dalit, Dalit,
Downtrodden, downtrodden and trampled,
Crushed below,
Under the feet,
Untouchable, impure,
Unchaste?

Why, why,
You tell me,
Tell me,
What the reason,
Why to call it,
Why to take it for,
What the word means it literally?

I do not like the nuisance
Created,
But want to go deep into,
Deep into
To cut the layers of meaning,
What,
What does it mean clearly?


A Brahmin I Kissing A Dalit Girl, Think I, Why Did I After?

A Brahmin
Pundit I
Lamenting
After
Having kissed
A Dalit beauty,
Oh, why did I,
Did I do
After all?

Chandalika,
Tu mere mana mandir mein,
Chandalika,
You in my heart temple.


Dalit Literature, The Non-Dalit Writing, How Can It Be?

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.

Bihar In Third-Class Talks, Who Dalit, Who Undalit?

Bihar in third-class talks,
Who a Dalit,
Who an un-Dalit?

They doing these
Just for to be ministers.


Dalit Literature, Is It Political Or Sociological?

Dalit literature, is it
Political or sociological,
Telling about the rights
And social justice meted out to them?

How were they victimized,
Subjected to suffering and struggle,
Injustice and tyranny,
Inhuman treatment
Though they were human beings?

Dalit, the word means downtrodden,
Crushed with legs and feet,
Fallen and trodden,
The under-dogs and the have-nots
Politically, from the Marxistic point of view.

Is it of Daridranarayana and his kangal-bhojana,
Is it of Kabir and Tukaram,
Is it of Karna and Eklavya
Or of Surpanakha, Hidimba and others,
Sati, Sita, Draupadi and Shakuntala
Or of Bhishma and Eklavya?


Dalit Literaure, Let Them...

Dalit literature, let them
Say and write,
Those who are the Dalits,
The downtrodden,
The poor and the hungry people,
Living under impoverished circumstances,
Under inhuman discrimination,
A world dotted by and followed into the toes
Caste, creed and class,
Backwardness, poverty and misrule,
Foreign rule and plunder and loot of India.

Dalit literature,
Dalit poetry, drama, fiction, prose,
Let them, let them write,
Not you,
Let the Mushahars and the Chamars
Write,
The Mehatars and other untouchable castes,
The washermen and the barbers,
The Doms and the Mochis,
The drum-beaters and the taxidermists,
The Pasis and others.

The Dalit Diaspora

The Dalit literature,
The non-Dalits writing
As for their doctorates
And career advancement.

The Aryans meted out
To the non-Aryans,
But they too were a divided lot
And none could reform them in India.

The situation worsened
During the medieval times
When the Sati system, the child marriage
Raked us.
There was none to bail
The crisis
Out of,
None to show the light of knowledge.

The missionaries definitely lifted
Them out,
But converted to,
Sowing the seeds of animosity.


Dalit Literature, Let Them Write, Let Us Not For Our Doctorates For Promotion

Dalit literature
Like the Black literature
Let them write,
Dabble in ink and scribble,
Not us
For our doctorates
For promotion
Under the career advancement scheme.

Dalit literature
Of the Dalits, by the Dalits and for the Dalits,
Let them
As they have suffered, struggled to survive,
Let them,
Let them their own experiences
Of sufferings, struggles for survival
Down the ages.

How To Begin Dalit Literature?

How to begin Dalit literature,
Drona, you made him cut the finger,
The finger of the poor forest boy
As for the royal food and shelter(anna) ,
You made him sacrifice,
Suffer as his expertise
Which he gained marking you
Giving tips to the royal boys?

Drona, you made him cut the thumb
So that he may practise,
Use his expertise,
Isn't it,
Isn't it your partisan outlook,
Isn't, isn't it your biased outlook,
Drona?

Say you, say you, for what did you
Do that,
Trespassing the line
Of the teacher-student morality and ethics,
Say you, say you, Drona,
Haven't, haven't you
Turned into a guilty Brahmin teacher,
Confess you, confess you, Drona?

Dalit Literature, How Long Will It Remain Dalit?


Dalit Literature, I deplore it
That the non-Dalits are writing,
Putting it to word
And with it,
May I ask,
What can they do
For the Dalits
Already poor and needy,
Hand to mouth too not,
Drinking wine
To kill hunger and poverty
And for dreaming romantically,
But when intoxication gets over,
They see the things lying really,
Bare and nude?

The fire of hunger who to extinguish it,
The fire of the belly,
The hungry stomach
Takes it not the load of wine,
That too country liquor,
Third-class Indian wine
Made from molasses, mahua buds
Or rotten and stale rice,
Lying joblessly
And unemployed,
Working day and night
Without any food,
Living on stale food
And left-overs,
Oh, how to sustain,
How to survive?


Their Literature, You Are Writing For Your Ph.D. Program (Dalit Matter)

Their literature
You are writing,
I mean you are working
For your Ph.D. on Dalit literature,
But just for your career advancement,
Not for sharing their experiences,
How can it be,
How can it?


Dalit Literature, Where To Search It? Do Not Politicize It Please

Dalit literature search I in
The Little Black Boy
And London of Blake,
Dalit literature search I in
The Beggar Maid by Tennyson.

Dalit literature find I
In the kangal boy
Shown to Adi Shankaracharya,
In the concept of daridranarayana
Which mentions it Tagore in Gitanjali.

Dalit literature saw I in
The poverty of Sudama,
The services of Raja Ram Mohun Roy,
William Bentick, Vidyasagar
Prohibiting the Sati system, child marriage.

Dalit literature found I in
The chimney-sweepers of Charles Lamb,
Derozio's The Fakir of Jungheera,
In pity and pain
Rather than politics.

Dalit literature felt I in
Tagore's Chandalika,
Eklavya's stunt
Making aghast and shameful,
Gandhi's Harijanodhara.


Why To Divide The Society? /It Is Stupid To Think Along The Dalit & Non-Dalit Lines

It is stupid to think along
The Dalit & non-Dalit lines,
You worship the cow,
But who will throw away the dead cows
If they are throwing,
Let them,
Why to interrupt
And intercept them?

Too much Brahminical madness
I can never support it.