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

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.