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Marathi Dalit Poetry: Caste, Dignity and the Demand for Equality

Marathi Dalit poetry has played a vital role in challenging caste oppression and asserting the dignity of people excluded from dominant literary and social narratives. It is not one single style or voice: it includes different generations, experiences and aesthetic choices. Its shared force lies in making lived inequality impossible to dismiss as an abstraction. Experience as literary knowledge D…

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Poetry of India 29/100: Bahinabai Chaudhari and the Wisdom of Everyday Marathi

Part 29 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through Indian poetry. Bahinabai Chaudhari’s Marathi poetry is treasured for the way it draws philosophical insight from ordinary work, family life, farming and the natural world. Her voice is associated with an oral, spoken idiom rather than an ornamental literary style. The result is poetry that feels close to lived experience while asking large qu…

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