Ambedkar’s mantra for the community: educate, organize, agitate. Many Dalit writers trace their social and literary audacity to B.R. Has the Dalit personal chronicle transformed over the years? Has the information revolution and the more democratic social media reshaped it in any way? Is a more nuanced form of memoir that places the modern Dalit in a globalizing/globalized economy taking shape? Dalit writers in other languages wrote their stories, often as autobiographical poetry-Omprakash Valmiki in Hindi, Siddalingaiah in Kannada, Bama in Tamil, and others. No less than 40 writers, men and women, penned their life stories among them, Laxman Mane, Raja Dhale, Arjun Dangle, Shankarrao Kharat, Yashwant Manohar, Keshav Meshram, Hira Bansode, Urmila Pawar, Babytai Kamble, Jyoti Lanjewar and Narendra Jadhav. The voice amplified as more and more Marathi writers told their stories.
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