Best Dalit Poems

i see a sun that never sets,
that enlighten inner quest,
by transcending hearts gate
to overcome lives fade
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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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now hear the unheard cries
of dalit women plight
upper caste takes pride
humanity here despise
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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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Latest Poems (My WhatsApp Poems & Others)
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We are a people of peerless unity
Come what may we've pledged solidarity:
Though some of us may demand
A separate Dalit Land
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Have I come to feel
What it is love,
Sympathy and attachment,
Affection and infatuation for
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She has just a small straw-thatched
Muddy house to live in,
The floor with date-leaf mat
To sleep on
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Wherever went I, the Dalit girl left me not
Kept on following me as my shadow
Leaving me not behind the Dalit girl
A poor but sociable girl.
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Adi shanakarcharya felt it
As a vision
gripping him
And he seeing a small kangal boy
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Dalit house,
I saw it from far,
Dalit house,
Small, congested muddy shed,
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I am a Chandalini,
A Chandalini,
Will you drink water from my hands?
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Is there anything as Dalit literature?
It is actually Dalit matters, Dalit stuffs,
The things about Dalit locality, landscape and housing colony,
Dalit society, culture and life,
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Dalit literature is but sociological
Of caste, class, society and culture,
Dalit caste,
Dalit class,
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Dalit literature is
Of Eklavya,
Of Sabri,
Eklavya
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Dalit literature is but the sociology
Of the Dalit society and culture,
Dalit people,
How their society,
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The Chamars,
I mean the cobblers,
The Mushahars,
The rat-catchers,
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The Bhakti singers of India
Singing the songs of Paramananda,
The Naga sadhus of India
The great Hatahyogis,
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I see it Dalit literature in a different form
In King Shantanu's love for Satyavati
And his courting of her
And asking for as his queen consort
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Dalit, pada-dalit,
Trodden, downtrodden, crushed,
Neglected, sidetracked, oppressed and suppressed,
Who were those crushed under feet,
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Those who sell wine,
Have you at least tried to look into,
See them
To say,
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I find it
She has nothing to eat in her house,
Food lie sit stocked,
Water too is brought from other man's house,
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Taking juthan
Grew I up,
Going half-fed, half-clothed,
Taking juthan,
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Who is the nameless aaya
Into whose hands
Is George Orwell
As a child
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Adi Shankaracharya seeing God
in the form of a kangal boy,
A poor destitute boy
Going with the dog
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Bharat ki vidhwa,
Kitani tirashkrit,
Kitani upekshit!
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A lover of a Dalit girl
Am I
As have I known it
After loving her,
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Baasi roti,
Eating it
Grew she up
In a hut,
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Dalit kanya,
Where was she born,
Where did she grow up
In which hut or mud house
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Dalit poetry,
Whose poetry is it,
Dalit poetry,
The poetry of
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In this canvas
I want to snap the photos,
Take
The photos of
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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.
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Baasi Roti/ Stale Bread
(Dalit Poetry)

Preface
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My Autobiography, The Autobiography of A Dalit Girl

Foreword
A Dalit girl's autobiography is before you to see, what it is in her life, what not, how she has been eking out a living, how the story of her life which nobody knows it, how is it life in the country, the rural side. Agricultural India's problems we could not feel it. How were our homes and ways? How did we live in as agriculturists, farmers and rural people? A Dalit girl's autobiography will speak the same. Our villages and been as such, our country homes and never could we rise above. But caste and class-based discriminations destroyed it all.
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The Dark Daughter as a poem
Is a complex poem of some mythical base
And so mystical
Telling of father-daughter bonding,
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I am but anti-Brahminical against
Brahminical excesses if humiliating and unnecessaily hypocritical,
I am anti--Dalit if if found digressing and deogatory in cultural perspectives.
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What is Dalit literature?
Do you know it,
Can you say it?
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Dalit literature,
Dalit literature is
Of the Dalits,
Dalits,
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From modernism and its beyond
To the modernist
To the post-modern
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To study Dalit Studies
Is to human rights,
Law and justice,
Wefare and development,
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Coming to in a dream,
She said it to me,
'I am the worshipper of your heart,
Why do you search me outside?
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When there is none in trhe house,
She comes to give water and food
To me, to my gods and goddesses,
Taking permission from
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A Dalit woman
I was born
In a hamlet
Made from bamboo and mud walls
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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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