Jotirao Phule s Gulamgiri to be released on Satyashodhak Diwas
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Dalitbahujans grieve Father Stan Swamy s passing
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Manoranjan Byapari: ‘There won’t be any gods in Bangla Dalit Literature’
‘Bangla Dalit Literature will be a literature of humanity. We won’t have any gods and we won’t demean anybody. Everyone will be presented just as they are. We will create a new literature.’ Manorajan Byapari, chairman, Bangla Dalit Sahitya Academy, in conversation with Kartik Choudhary
Manoranjan Byapari came into the limelight after the publication of his autobiography, Chandal Jebon
, in 2012. On 14 September, 2020 he was appointed chairperson of the Bangla Dalit Sahitya Academy by the Mamata Banerjee-led Government of West Bengal. Byapari had come to India as a refugee from East Pakistan just before the 1971 Indo-Pak war. In 1975, when he was just 20, he was arrested for participation in a political event. He learnt how to read and write during his stay in the jail. After his release, he started driving a rickshaw. His meeting with Mahashweta Devi, a literary giant of Bengal, was the turning