Best Dalit Poems

now hear the unheard cries
of dalit women plight
upper caste takes pride
humanity here despise
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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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oh nirvaan! truly dearly you,
how should i tell you,
how much i love you,
i am your uncle,
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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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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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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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Fire, O fire
Why are you there?
Why are you in the face of my wife?
Why are you in Lathore Dalit basti?
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Black money, black money,
All black, but you white,
Provoked or unprovoked firing on the borders,
Tension escalating unnecessarily,
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It is stupid to think along
The Dalit & non-Dalit lines,
You worship the cow,
But who will throw away the dead cows
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Dalit literature search I in
The Little Black Boy
And London of Blake,
Dalit literature search I in
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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
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Dalit poetry,
Found I in the fisherman’s home,
The fisherman working all daylong,
From early in the morning,
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God, save me, save me from the Indian English poets,
Save me, save me, God from
The Indian poets calling themselves great poets,
Poets and poetesses
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Their literature
You are writing,
I mean you are working
For your Ph.D. on Dalit literature,
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Dalit Literature, I deplore it
That the non-Dalits are writing,
Putting it to word
And with it,
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Dalit literature,
The non-Dalit writing about
To be benefited from
The stuffs and matters of the Dalits,
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Those who want to promote Dalit literature,
May I ask,
Are they themselves
Or the problems and concerns of them?
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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
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A Dalit being head of the nation
Means nothing when Dalits are under attack.
A Muslim being in the cabinet
Means nothing when Muslims are under attack.
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In memory of Rohith Vemula (1989-2016)

Trees are hoisted by their own shadows
 Air pours in from the north, cold air, stacks of it
The room is struck into a green fever
 Stained bed, book, scratched windowpane.
A twenty-six-year-old man, plump boy face
 Sets pen to paper - My birth
Is my fatal accident, I can never recover
 From my childhood loneliness.
Dark body once cupped in a mother's arms
 Now in a house of dust. Not cipher, not scheme
For others to throttle and parse
 (Those hucksters and swindlers,
Purveyors of hot hate, casting him out).
 Seeing stardust, throat first, he leapt
Then hung spread-eagled in air:
 The trees of January bore witness.
Did he hear the chirp
 From a billion light years away,
Perpetual disturbance at the core?
 There is a door each soul must go through,
A swinging door -
 I have seven months of my fellowship,
One lakh and seventy thousand
 Please see to it that my family is paid that.
She comes to him, girl in a cotton sari,
 Holding out both her hands.
Once she loosened her blouse for him
 In a garden of milk and sweat,
Where all who are born go down into dark,
 Where the arnica, star flower no one planted
Thrives, so too the wild rose and heliotrope.
 Her scrap of blue puckers and soars into a flag
As he rappels down the rock face
 Into our lives,
We who dare to call him by his name -
 Giddy spirit become
Fire that consumes things both dry and moist,
 Ruined wall, grass, river stone,
Thrusts free the winter trees
 From their own crookedness, strikes
Us from the fierce compact of silence,
 Igniting red roots, riotous tongues
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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,
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Dalit literature means the literature
Of the oppressed and the suppressed,
Means whose rights have been infringed upon,
politically, socially, economically not,
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Did Adi Shankaracharya not see Shiva
As a kangal boy
In the disguise
Just a small naked black boy,
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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.
Ten days of Typhoid, and a partial recovery.
Enough reason to thank some God.

He drags himself clumsily to a nearby temple.
Sadly, of an Upper-caste God.
Away from the temple, he bends in supplication.
Says his last prayer—Unwelcome Gratefulness.
To a God who (anyway) didn't help him recover.
Innocent Acts of Undulating Faith spurned
Anger. Retaliation.

An irked Rajput surged forth
and smote the untouchable with a iron rod.
He, warrior caste lion couldn't tolerate
Encroachment. At the temple. By a Dalit.
Deathly howls of a feeble-voiced
rent the air, fervently seeking holy intervention.
God, Lifeless as ever—watched grimly with closed eyes.
In resigned submission, the sick man's Life was given away.
Caste—crueler than disease, emotionless, dry, took its toll
Confirming traditional truths: Dalits die, due to devotion.

Unanswered questions remain;
Agony is not always a forgotten memory.

Life teaches: there are different Gods at different temples.
One solitary thought haunts recollection day and night.
Where did this poor man's sixty-five year old soul go?
To Heaven - to join noble martyrs who died for a cause?
Or to Hell—where the Gods reside, making Caste Laws.
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Literature is literature,
What is in Dalit literature,
What there in being Dalit, un-Dalit?
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Can you accept the selling of the wife in Hardy's
The Mayor of Casterbridge?
Hardy himself married again when he had been seventy plus
A woman just below half the age?
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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) ,
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Dalit literature
Like the Black literature
Let them write,
Dabble in ink and scribble,
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The Dalit literature,
The non-Dalits writing
As for their doctorates
And career advancement.
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Dalit literature, let them
Say and write,
Those who are the Dalits,
The downtrodden,
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Too is my daughter-like
How can I negate it
From accepting,
That poor, unprivileged,
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Men decide to amuse themselves
they pick up an innocent Dalit girl to have their fun;
she was not born to yield pleasure to them,
she was not a street girl or a gypsy just wandering about
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Many agendas, many improvements,
many developments, many enhancements;
progress, growth, expansion and everything
that encompass equality, justice and fairness
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Prayer is not like a
spare wheel
That you just pull out when you feel
The wound of your heart doesn't heal
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Worrying does not take away
Tomorrow's woes of blue and gray,
It cancels today's joyous way
To let now be in disarray.
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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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Talking of the apathy of Drona
Prejudiced and biased to Prince Arjuna,
Who instead of his injunctions
To what he saw in the tree,
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Dalit literature, is it
Political or sociological,
Telling about the rights
And social justice meted out to them?
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Bihar in third-class talks,
Who a Dalit,
Who an un-Dalit?
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Dalit literature,
The non-Dalit writing it
For making fame,
How can it be?
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A Brahmin
Pundit I
Lamenting
After
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Dalit, Dalit,
Downtrodden, downtrodden and trampled,
Crushed below,
Under the feet,
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Dalit, Dalit, this Dalitization of literature
Like I not
As for unnecessary politicization,
Say you,
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Chandalika
In love with Ananda
The Boddha Bhikku,
Waiting for
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Dalit poetry,
Dalit drama,
Dalit fiction,
Dalit prose,
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There had not been,
But all of a sudden how has love grown
For Dalit literature,
Is it for dissertations?
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Dalit literature,
Dalit literature,
Of the Dalits, by the Dalits or for the Dalits,
A Dalit writing about a Dalit
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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.
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Something is definitely admirable
And human in them,
But something is vehemently sociological
Which but you cannot
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Dalit, Dalit,
Have you,
You ever tried to know,
Know the meaning
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Dalit,
Dalit,
Who a Dalit,
Searching the theme
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Dalit girl calling,
Calling me
With love,
Love,
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why are you after the Dalits,
Let them live,
Live,
Have a life of own,
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Dalit literature
Of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits
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Dalit poetry
Of the Dalits,
By the Dalits,
For the Dalits.
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Dalit literature, Dalit literature,
I hear the people saying,
The people I mean the academics,
Specially the scholars
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What is Dalit literature?
The literature dealing with the Dalits,
The Dalit people,
Their life and culture,
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My first point is,
What does the term,
Dalit
Mean it,
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Who are the Dalits
And whose poetry,
Poetry should I,
I write
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Now stop you saying,
Stop you,
If you have to say,
Say you
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Dalit, Dalit literature,
The literature of the Dalits
By the Dalits or other than
Representing,
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I saw her smiling
In the hamlet
Playing with dust,
Under the sun
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The politics of Dalit literature,
The politics of Brahmin literature,
How to discuss it
Who from where,
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Meena Kandasamy, as a poetess has many a thing in her,
She is a writer, an activist, an actress
And what not,
A writer of protest literature,
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A Poetical File
(In The Memory of My Youngest Brother)
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When I see nobody as to light
The incense sticks and the lamp
In my room for worship,
I ask the Dalit girl working
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Beats it the heart,
You do not know it,
How much do I love her,
How much I like her?
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She has also a heart,
She has also a soul,
The poor Dalit girl.
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Dalit lit.,
Dalit lit.,
What is in Dalit lit., Sir?
I just want to ask
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I see her struggling all daylong,
A poor Dalit woman,
Working in her home,
Working in the master's house,
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Make I
Who lives in a hut,
Sleeps on the floor,
Works in the fields,
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A Dalit girl,
Where was she born
And where did she go away,
A Dalit girl,
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O, I see your eyes red with tears,
O, poor addict,
Will life spend as thus
In dying as a poor destitute?
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I was born in a hut,
Slept on the floor,
Lived under poverty and scarcity,
Poor resources
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Juthan khake hi bada huyi hun,
Juthi thaali maanjana
Aur jutha khaana,
Yahi thee meri janidagi,
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Ek Dalit ladaki she pyaar,
Usei pyaar kar
Dhoka nahi dei denaa.
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Ek Dalit ladaki kere haath she
Pani pinei
Ki tamanna hain,
Apnei ko shuddha karna chahata hun.
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Is Kali the Dark Divine,
The Dark Lady
Of the thieves, dacoits and snatchers
Kali the Lady, the Dark Divine,
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I do not know,
Why is Kali dark,
I do not know
Why is she so dark black,
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I am trying to understand
The politics of Dalit literature,
Who the politicians
And how their politics
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Dalit India,
Dalit men and women,
Dalit feelings and emotions,
Thoughts and ideas,
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Where was she born,
Where grew she up,
Where did she live, where not,
Where slept she on floor, where not,
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Dalit girl,
Who will the autobiography of her
And it will be an autobiography not,
But a biography
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Ek unpadh ke naam
Likha jo khata
Magar padha wo jo na shaki,
Khata le padhawayi kisi se
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Dalit jaatiyo ka itihas
Mai likhana chahata hun,
Unke sangharsha aur anubhava,
Unki anubhuti aur bhavana ko
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