STEEL NIBS ARE SPROUTING Paperback

"STEEL NIBS ARE SPROUTING: New Dalit Writing from South India" is the second of two pivotal volumes that capture the powerful surge of Dalit literature emerging from South India since the mid-1970s. This book presents a rich collection of English translations from forty-three Kannada and Telugu writers, activists, and public intellectuals, featuring their poetry, fiction, essays, critical commentary, autobiographical narratives, and research into mythopoeic histories. Together, these diverse voices offer a compelling and often challenging perspective that has reshaped modern literature, culture, and society, providing a vital intellectual biography of contemporary India's most significant debates surrounding caste, identity, and the enduring legacies of Ambedkar, Lohia, and Marx.