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Dalit writings vital part of Indian literature: Ananthamurthy
PTI | 01:09 PM,Sep 13,2010
Thiruvananthapuram,Sep 13 (PTI)Dalit literature, whether oral or
written, has been an integral and enlivening part of Indian literary
tradtions for centuries, eminent writer and academic U R Ananthamurthy
has said. For the depressed classes like tribals and those destined to
live in the lower rungs of social hierarchy literature had always been
a means to achieve "self-respect, the Jnanpith laureate said here last
evening. He was delivering a lecture on the "Contributions of Dalits
to Indian literature", organised by Dr K Ayyappa Panicker Foundation,
in honour of the late Malayalam poet and scholar. Quoting from Kannada
and other Indian languages, Ananthamurthy said while non-Dalits could
write about the Dalit situation they could not claim to represent the
Dalits. There had been several examples of non-Dalits writing on Dalit
situation, like the famous Kannada novel "Chomana Dudi" by Shivaram
Karanth. But there was a kind of arrogance when non-Dalits claimed to
represent Dalits, he noted. When Dalits themselves write about their
situation, it imparts to the literature a new strength and idiom. Some
kind of a protest had been part of the Dalit writings, especially in
Marathi since the time of Bhakti movement. Often the spark was convyed
through the rejection of the generally accepted "respectful" language
to express their "disrespectful" situation, he noted. A collection of
poems of Ayyappa Panicker, translated into English by writer and
journalist P Raveendran Nayar, was released on the occasion. Former
Kendra Sahitya Akademi Chairman Sachithanandan and former diplomat T P
Sreenivasan spoke on the contributions and influence of Ayyappa
Panicker to Malayalam literature.PTI NM RC 09131215
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