Volume : 7, Issue : 9, SEP 2021
OM PRAKASH VALMIKI’S “JOOTHAN”: A TRUE PICTURE OF THE SOCIETY
NAVEEN DEORA
Abstract
Valmiki has always been vocal regarding the voice of the dalit community, the main aim of his works have been to raise the voice for the downtrodden people. This work has been taken for the research work due to its strong contents which are very powerful enough to bring the main point to the view of the people of India. He used Dalit literature as a tool to present a communal trauma of his community. Earlier it was very difficult to recognise such voice as has been Valmiki’s but as of now, his voice has been well recognized. He speaks for the right for his society. He himself faces a great discrimination in his whole life due to being a Dalit. He always believed that a human must be a free person. His autobiography points out the problems and predicaments of the dalit people in the Hindu society. He emphasizes the significance of literature by endowing the platform in spreading the knowledge about Dalit lives and their individual experience in this civil society. Dalit Studies are not discussed generally and become a rare glimpse that very few talk about it and dare enough to write. Omprakash Valmiki tries his best to raise the voice of the downtrodden people which has been suppressed for the time immemorial. His writings have created a sense of consciousness in the downtrodden people of the society.
Keywords
MARGINALIZED, DALIT, SOCIETY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS.
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