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NAMDEO DHASAL
Marathi Poet
His use of
revolutionary language defending the rights of Dalits was an offense to
the official language of the State of Maharashtra.
Poetry for this social
activist is politics. His very blatant piece 'Golpitha' on red-light
milieu caused an uproar in the literary world. He lives the woes of the
underprivileged through his writings.
IMPORTANT
WORKS:
Golpitha(poetry)
Moorkh Mhataryane(poetry)
Itihasatil
Apaphavya patre(scholarly work)
Khel(scholarly work)
Priya
Darshin(scholarly work)
Ambedkari Chalwal( scholarly work)
Tuhi
Yatta Kanchi(scholarly work)
Negative space(novel)
Hadki
Hadawala(novel)
AWARDS:
Padamshree 1999
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What More Than This
Can Be
What more than this
can be the intensity of grief,
This experience has so much made me
wander
Along thorny paths.
Along this river the water of desire is
flowing
The poison of erect hood is playing on the grass
A dove is
dancing on the half-exposed breasts of Ven
The city has wrapped
The
clothes of Laser beams around itself
The debaucherous sleep of
unchecked power
in the unworldly darkness
I am a common man of this
contemporary history
I have put down the head guard out of
self-humility
I wish to embrace deeply my innermost being
That will
end up the essence,
Do not shed the innocent skin of this
grammar
After all this heinous world belongs to human beings
Power
is not in words but in the desire
This fever-stricken, exaggerated
pretention
Will bother the deep relations
Clear away the
self-chosen inhuman path
Seasons come and go
Who are you waiting
for?
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