VEMAIAH BEESUPOGU

  భారత దేశం నా మాతృ భూమి అని చెప్పే ప్రతి వాడు తన సహోదరున్ని ప్రేమిస్తే , ఈ దేశం ఎప్పుడో అభిరుద్ది  చెంది వుండేది.

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...

అందరి  అమ్మలు  సంక్రాంతి  పండుగ  చేస్తుంటే........... మా అమ్మ మాత్రం వరి  నాట్లు వేస్తుంటుంది. అందరి అమ్మలు గొబ్బిమ్మలు కోసం ఉదయాన్నే ఊరంతా తిరుగుతుంటే... మా అమ్మ మాత్రం ఉదయాన్నే పనికోసం వెతుకుతుంటుంది. అందరి అమ్మలు కొత్త కోకలు కట్టి సాయంత్రం వురేగుతవుంటే....  మా అమ్మ మాత్రం చిరిగినా చీరతో కట్టెల మోపు మోస్తూ ఇంటికి వస్తుంటుంది. అందరి అమ్మలు సంక్రాంతి సంబరాలు చేస్తుంటే ... మా అమ్మ మాత్రం పిడికెడు ఆత్మ గౌరం కోసం రోడ్లు మీద ధర్నాలు చేస్తుంది.

The emergence of dalit theology in India can be considered as a significant event in the history of Indian Christian thinking as it is very much related to the historical experiences of an oppressed and down trodden people. It can be conceived in the context of the struggles of a community against casteism and their continued aspirations for social justice both in church and society. However, the immediate concern for formulating a Dalit theology emerged within the Christian Dalit Liberation movement. So the sources and process of Dalit Theology lay in the agony and sufferings of Dalits in their search for self identity, equality and their search for a meaningful life in the community. K.C. Abraham, the President of Ecumenical Association for the Third World Theologians rightly points out: Dalit Theology emerges out of the attempt in their seeking a new identity for themselves based on their past religions and cultures which had been suppressed or destroyed by dominant communities. In ...

The last two hundred years have seen the emergence of a new consciousness and a new identity among the 200 million people who have been considered “outcaste” or “untouchables”. Today they call themselves Dalits, a new name they have coined for themselves, and demand aggressively their share in the shaping of the destiny of the nation. It is not a mere name or title, in fact it has become an expression of hope and identity. The term Dalit in Sanskrit is derived from the root dal which means to split, break, crack and so on. When used as an adjective, it means split, broken, burst, destroyed, crushed. It is said that Jotiba Phule(1827-1890), the founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj, a non Brahmin  movement in Maharastra, a social reformer and revolutionary, used this term to describe the outcastes and untouchables as the oppressed and broken victims of the Indian caste-ridden society. It is also believed that it was Dr. B.R. Ambedkar who coined the word first. The Dalits of today were...