Steel Nibs Are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South India
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Edited by K Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu
HarperCollins India
816 pages, Rs 799
This volume brings together, in English translation from Kannada and Telugu, the poetry, fiction, essays, critical commentary, memoirs, and research into mythopoeic pasts of 43 writers, activists and public intellectuals. Initially published in small, alternative journals and daily newspapers, this archive is a rare intellectual biography of the past half century; a record of the meanings of Ambedkar, Lohia and Marx in contemporary India; and a mine of knowledge and insight into childhood, education, family, welfare, employment, work, and the role of politics in Dalit worlds.
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