This is a letter to the editor by K. Balagopal published in Economical and political weekly. In this letter he writes his experience in attending the Lokayan seminar on Gujarat-Marathi delit literature as a representative of the Revolutionary Writer’s Association of Andra Pradesh. He criticizes the intention of the participants in attending the seminar because they were discussing more on politics than literature. They were asking the question whether the Dalit movements had any future? what does the movement want to achieve? The Marathi writers had an answer to this, Arun Kamble says, “The aim of the movements is humanism, liberty, equality and fraternity, absence of exploitation”. The writers of the Gujarati Literature themselves were confused about their goal and they were thinking as of a second class. They were still using the sanskritised language instead of using the rural people. Dalit poetry is quite far from “coming up with almost revolutionary answers”. the writer vehemently criticizes the attitude of the Dalit literatures of Gujarat.
Date of Reading : 15/06/16
Bibliography: K. Balagopal, Dalit Literature, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Feb. 6, 1982), p. 177,Published by: Economic and Political Weekly.
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