: ‘Untameable, dissident Dalit creativity is consigned to the scrublands of literary regimes’ #IndiaNEWS I will never be free of memories. Memories are my reality.That is the destiny of Dalits.–

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‘Untameable, dissident Dalit creativity is consigned to the scrublands of literary regimes’ #IndiaNEWS
I will never be free of memories. Memories are my reality.That is the destiny of Dalits.– Bhimrao AmbedkarTo hear one of the greatest intellectuals of modern India let out a cry of profound anguish – on the eve of the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence – over the lot of his people to forever be the prisoners of memories is rather disconcerting but also intriguing. The memory he is talking about is neither the historical memory nor the spiritual memory, for he had delegitimised the projects of excavating these memories as shrewdly colonial and sinisterly assimilationist, respectively.If he knew the quest for glorious Dalit past and proud genealogies to be constructs – the revivalist cultural politics to him was dangerously status quoist – he would have none of these structures of memory. The claustrophobic prison-house of memory he is condemned to relates to the frozen time his community is forced to inhabit; the unchanging time marked by the poisonous, viral caste ethos that has infected the very institutions and forms of life he had built and enlivened to fight it.Like Babasaheb, Bhalabha, the visualiser in Vultures, in whose memory the narrative unfolds, is a hostage to his memory. Based on the incident of the blood-curdling murder...Read more

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