Valmiki: Joothan
World Literatures ‘Joothan’ is an autobiographical account of Omprakash Valmiki’s journey from his birth and upbringing as an untouchable in the newly independent India of the 1950s and his pride in being a Dalit. Until the advent of Dalit literature, literary representations either ignored untouchables or portrayed them as victims in need of saviors, as […]