White Paper (Poems)

by Sharankumar Limbale

2017100 pages

About the book

Translator Mukta Jagannath Mahajan is presently working in the School of Language Studies and Research Centre, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon (M.S.) She has 22 years of teaching experience and has been writing scripts for AIR, Jalgaon since 1985. She has three reference books to her credit and has translated a monograph for Sahitya Akademi, Mumbai. She is a creative writer and has written some stories in English and has a composition of poems granted by Sahitya Sanskriti AnudanMadal, Pune to her credit.

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“White Paper is the collection of Sharankumar Limbale’s poems writtenin Marathi that have been translated into English. The translator, MuktaJagannath Mahajan, has done a wonderful translation the highly symbolic andmetaphoric poems of Limbale.
The Dalit poets of Maharastra from the early 1970s onwards created newliterary textuality by writing fiery poems, short stories, autobiographiesin Marathi, which generated altogether new language and idiom in Indianliterature. It was this Dalit Pather Movement that created waves in the 1970sand 80s. The word Dalit became more and more popular only after thismovement attracted the national attention.
Sharankumar Limbale is the writer and poet in that movement and he hasproduced an outstanding poetic text, in the form of this poetry collection. Inthis book Limbale tells the pain and anger of a Dalits and narrates the Dalitlife in different contexts. Limbale’s poetry has the power of enraging theanger of Dalits and has the energy of inspiring them.”
—Prof. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd