Yashwant Manohar

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The Butcher Loves Me a Lot – Reading the poems of Loknath Yashwant

by rti_adminon March 29, 2019March 20, 20230

Chanchal Kumar The critic Walter Benjamin, talking about a piece of literature, says that the truth content of the work becomes more relevant only if it is bound up with its subject matter “inconspicuously and intimately”. If we go by this explanation then Loknath Yashwant’s volume places a mirror to us, in order that …

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Questions of name

by rti_adminon August 12, 2012March 20, 20230

Gail Omvedt “Dalit”, “Scheduled Caste”, “Ex-Untouchable” and “Harijan”. These are only some of the many words used to refer to the most oppressed sections of Indian society, “untouchable” in the traditional caste order, performers of the most degrading task, and still today caught in the throes of poverty, discrimination and the remnants of untouchability. “Dalit” …