DALIT POETRY IN INDIA – A HOICK WAVE IN INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE. Literature has the power and ability to construct and protect the cultural space of various communities. It also plays a vital role in providing more opportunities for self realization of any community by providing necessary information about the cultural, history and customary practices. The greater tradition could be visualized, imagined and witnessed through an effective literary presentation. This leads to the self realization of one’s cultural identity which will make the individual to hold the culture and other identity at the top. It is being adopted as a strategy for social change and social movements by the people in power, since literature possesses a greater value in the political dynamics of any state. These days discussions are going on the problems of marginalised groups of people all over the world-their social, ethnic, economic and cultural problems. Marginality with all its aspects is inde...
NARENDRA JADHAV’S OUTCASTE: A MEMOIR- A STORY OF THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DALITS The new category of writing ‘Dalit literature’ has established itself as a new literary movement in several regions in India in the last four decades. Arjun dangle offers a definition of Dalit literature: “Dalit literature is one which acquaints people with the caste system and untouchability in India, its appalling nature and its system of exploitation. In other words, Dalit is not a caste but a realization and is related to the experiences, joys and sorrows, and struggles of those in the lowest stratum of society. It matures with a sociological point of view and is related to the principles of negativity, rebellion and loyalty to science, thus finally ending as revolutionary.” 1 The literal meaning of the word dalit - is one who has been trampled under feet or who has been oppressed, exploited, insulted, humiliated an...
Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond (born 19, May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof , published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra . He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Life: Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli , Punjab States Agency , British India . His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India. His mother, Edith Clarke, was Anglo-Indian . His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace , and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force i...
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