“Don’t call me a dalit writer if a brahmin is not called a brahmin writer.”
I am Adi-Dravida. I am the owner of the language. That makes me a "Tamil writer."
June 20, 2017
In his conversation with ICF, Tamil writer Imayam raises concerns about the category "dalit literature", which may reduce dalit writers to a small pocket among "Tamil writers".
Read writer Imayam's Ambedkar Jayanti speech at Sahitya Akademi's Dalit Writers' Meet.
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