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One person, reported closely: their own voice balanced against the reporter's context and outside expertise.
Walked out on as a boy poet in Vinukonda, the Telugu Dalit poet mastered the classical verse of the Brahmin pandits and used it to put caste on trial, from the church pew to the temple door.
The co-founder of Dalit History Month has spent more than a decade making spaces where Dalit women tell their own story. Her first book is the newest of them.
From the stone thrown at the camera in Fandry to an Ambedkar Jayanti dance in a Bachchan film, the Marathi filmmaker has spent sixteen years putting caste in Indian cinema's blind spot.
The journalist who hid her Dalit caste, then named it in public, now reports on caste in the diaspora and helps organise New York's caste-law campaign. She answers her Dalit critics in print.
The Telugu Dalit writer has turned the speech of Madiga women in a Telangana village into literature, and gathered eight decades of Dalit women's writing in Telugu into print.
He went from driving an auto-rickshaw in Chalakudy to about 200 films and folk albums that sold in the millions. Ten years on, his memorial is still, in his director's words, fallow land.
From a Konkan village to Mumbai's women's movement, the Marathi-language writer has spent fifty years putting Dalit women, and the caste and patriarchy that bound them, on the page in their own terms.
Gidla traced her Dalit Christian family's caste through mission schools, communist parties, a police cell and a New York subway job. Her newest writing turns to her mother.
The Tamil novelist, who died in July aged 79, spent five decades writing the black-soil south and the people at the bottom of its order. He rejected the "Dalit writer" label.
The Mumbai artist known for archiving the Dalit Panthers' magazines makes work about who gets to picture Dalit women, and what even the anti-caste movement lets them be.
The Dalit Panthers' little magazines survived on their own people's shelves. Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar is scanning and translating them, arguments and art alike.