Eminent Dalit writer Mohandas Nemishrey highlights the biases and prejudices prevalent against the marginalised communities in state funded intitutions such as the Sahitya Akademi. He discusses his experiences as a writer, and the continued discrimination against writers on the basis of their caste which limits their participation on such platforms, and generally excludes their works from what the state sponsors as popular literature.
Watch other interviews in the Living Ambedkar Jayanti series,
Laxman Gaikwad Discusses Who are Dalits and What is Dalit Literature
In Conversation with Vira Sathidar
Dalit Writer Siddalingaiah: “My Poetry is Protest, My Autobiography Humour”
Mungekar: “Government Invokes Ambedkar, but Denies Dalits Funding”
Achintya Biswas Makes a Short Survey of Bengali Dalit Literature
