Dalit Poems

Amid so much of brouhaha
On the political front in India
Here's a real Good News-
From the God's own country.
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now hear the unheard cries
of dalit women plight
upper caste takes pride
humanity here despise
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oh nirvaan! truly dearly you,
how should i tell you,
how much i love you,
i am your uncle,
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I was born on a windy night-
When the clock stroke twelve
Under the starry sky,
In a tarpaulin covered tent.
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The Saffronization of India?
-Phulbani, Kandhammal, Orissa, India.
'Calm follows every storm;
But Christians must be calm! '
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Blame game

Power remains only in family name
They have established reign over national game
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They say
'like ideology ploitics is dead'
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Dalit, Dalit is a word signifying
What is it trodden, suppressed, oppressed
And exploited and tortured,
The poorly downtrodden, have-nots, the exploited,
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Dalit literature,
This is possible in India,
In Indian context only,
Not at all applicable to English literature
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In an arid land of arid human minds
Caste, yet again authored a tragedy.
He, disease wrecked, downtrodden,
long-ago skinner of animals, sets out.
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The entity that is dreaded by all but ever present everywhere, a non-respecter of age,
Poverty does not have regard for race, nor nationality, as it is present in every part of the globe,
Poverty breeds diseases, it has siblings like misery, ignorance, illiteracy, dejection, rejection, degradation, agony,
Poverty means the difference between haves and have-nots, the rich and the poor, the upper and the lower class,
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Dalit literature, let them write,
You write it not,
The story of their life,
The narratives and anecdotes
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Dalit's case, why are they handling,
Dalit's matter, why are they taking up,
Let them take up and say
Rather than them
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There
They are
Treating
Dalits as
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let the water flow, let it flow
so that i can clean you up
thoroughly
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The Taj Mahal's love tale is eternal
Built by a prince to mark lost bridal joys
White marble sculpted in a vast farewell
Fashioned with all the grandeur wealth employs
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A child of twelve looks back quite dignified
moderately sad dragging her cloth-sack
across lands slanting upwards putrefied.
Skies above filled with scavenging crows glide
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When the country was rocked
in and out of Parliament
by a series of scandals,
a brutal gangrape in the capital
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Neither all Christians are Americans
Nor all Muslims are Arabians
In Arabian Peninsula there are Christians
In the land of America there are Muslims, too
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The word caste -
Not in good taste,
Utter not, please.
No one is Dalit or
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Gold's thirst is never satisfied,
Heart is broken, regret is wide,
Wealth and power poison inside,
Wreck and death to soul are applied.
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I did not choose this name, yet it chose me,
etched deep before I could even speak.
Dalit—broken, scattered, meant to serve,
not to stand, not to dream, not to belong.
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A Dalit girl
I grew up
Taking left-overs
And that too was not
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The Dalit priestess,
The Dalit priestess of my heart,
Who is the girl
Coming to worship with
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Dalit literature. What is in Dalit literature? How the text and the treatise? Who the exponents of it? And what in Dalit, un-Dalit? Which is whose literature? Is it a sociological, anthropological, ethnographic study? How to do justice with? I do not understand it.

Do they really express who have borne the brunt of exploitation? Who are they who have really suffered? Does it really represent them? The Dalit men and women, let them tell, tell you not.
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Shiva of the Dalit locality
I saw it
While passing through the way,
Shiva of the poor, shanty area
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A Dalit woman
I was born
In a hamlet
Made from bamboo and mud walls
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To study Dalit Studies
Is to human rights,
Law and justice,
Wefare and development,
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Dalit literature,
Dalit literature is
Of the Dalits,
Dalits,
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What is Dalit literature?
Do you know it,
Can you say it?
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