Anthology Gujarati Dalit Literature by Mishra (1 results)

Contents Acknowledgements IntroductionNeeraj Patel Poetry 1 Farewell to arms; My shadow; BrainwashPraveen Gadhvi 2 Untouchable; The conversation on a Magshar Night; The tortured timeDalpat Chauhan 3 From Broom to mouth; A Journey by Bus down the countrysideShankar Painter 4 The valley; A complaintHarish Mangalam 5 Conversation with wife; When I was born; Mother give me moonSahil Parmar 6 Overbridge; Misfortune; In a Chawl of closed mills; Honour be to youBhi Na Vankar 7 Identity; MummyYashwant Vaghela 8 Self-prideShamat Parmar 9 The song of our shirt; Exiled flowers; KaliyoNeerav Patel 10 To walk on the feet mattered most; The Dalit Ghetto; The Two diversRaju Solanki 11 Harsh destinyRaman Vaghela 12 Talk about; You WriteAK Dodiya 13 Do something; The Corpse; You awake My sister?s SonPurushottam Jadav 14 The stink of the Hellpit; The portraitJayant Parmar 15 The inheritance; Do you hear it; You tooKisan Sosa 16 Why don?t you write; Gokul and KaniyoPathik Parmar 17 Awareness; The Movement DayMadhukant Kalpit 18 When the sixth sense awakensShyam Sadhu 19 Ghazal 1 to 3Harivan Dafda 20 Equal linesBuddhidha  Visnagri 21 To the fading man I Singh; To A Poet at a MushairaBipin Gohil 22 Eklavya Day; Another worldDan Vaghela 23 Blessed HarijanUsha Makwana 24 WaitingMeena Kamle 25 Cold-blooded murderPriyanka Kalpit 26 In memoriam-Narayan DhuleParbat Parmar II Short story 27 The stableMohan Parmar 28 Transposition of bodyDasharath Parmar 29 Cold bloodDalpat Chauhan 30 FaithHarish Mangalam 31 The hellDharmabhai Shrimali 32 Queen of blackJasumati Parmar 33 Creamy layerNeerav Patel III Novel 34 AngaliyatJoseph Macwan 35 Daya Pashani VadiMohan Parmar 36 SavitriDaxa Damodara 37 Spearlike painB Kesharshivam 38 Flame of the heatHarish Mangalam V Drama 39 A true saga of SatyanarayanMohan Parmar 40 At the Pasture of PatanDalapat Chauhan 41 Switch it on nowHarish Mangalam VI Autobiography 42 AatmakathaLalit Parmar 43 Many remembrances of pastKhemchand Chavda 44 Ektara goes on ringingVitthal Rai 45 The destinationo f freedom-still miles to goVinubhai H Bhairaviya 46 What did I do to be so black and blueNeerav Patel Select bibliography IndexGujarati Dalit Literature is committed to the plight of Dalit Community particularly the SC the ST and the Baxi panch groups It straightforwardly deals with discrimination and exploitations of these communities It emphasizes the theme of exposition of the sufferings of non-high castes people and pays little attention to the forms of literary pieces It has been widely criticised for the lack of forms It has been widly criticised for the lack of forms But Gujarati Dalit Literature is quite recent and to expect perfection of forms at this stage is too much We can only say that Gujarati Dalit Literature is rough diamond But more than this it is the theme that takes the form If the theme is powerful it will take the care of the form In this respect selected Gujarati Dalit Literature is the veritable example of the theme that takes the form at the same time This Anthology contains the creative writings by Dalit writers because they have direct experiences and realizations of Dalit Communities But it does believe that non-Dalit writers can also produce Dalit Literature provided they have Commitment to dalit experience and dalit ideology However due to paucity of pages the writings of non-Dalit Literature could not be included in this anthology The editor regrets itThough Gujarati Dalit Literature is inspired by Dr Ambedkars ideology and Marathi Dalit Literature it has its own independent identity A few Comparatively young and moderately Gujarati Dalit poets and writers exposed to national and world literature dedicate themselves to neglected areas of experiences in literature of the time They decide to expand the horizon of literature they explicated the vision of treating a Dalit at least as a Human being This vision it is sure will be helpful to the researches professors general readers and a common man without fail 33.