Mumbai: Fourth edition of Dhasal literary festival to focus on marginalised voices
(WorldNews India)

In its fourth edition, the Dhasal Literature Festival, set to kick off Saturday on Mumbai University´s Kalina campus, will concentrate on the issues of the lumpenproletariat or the unorganised underclass devoid of class consciousness, Marathi poet Vaibhav Chhaya said. Advertising The festival, which made its debut in 2016 to pay tribute to Marathi poet, writer and Ambedkarite-Dalit movement activist Vaibhav Chhaya, has grown over the years to become a platform for artists from the Dalit-Bahujan community, Chhaya said. According to Chhaya, at a time when the city´s otherwise vibrant culture scene was not even talking about caste-based discrimination, let alone giving artists from the...