N Praveenkumar

Praveen Kumar N & Linet Thomas Abstract T o brand a distinction between ‘a voice for’ and ‘a voice of’ the Dalit, taking into account numerous Dalit literary works, is thought provoking. On close examining one comes to see that the works of the celebrated writer Mulk Raj Anand, an ‘upper-caste sympathizer’, who formerly advocated that ‘a writer should be the fiery voice of the people’ unveiling the pain, pathos and plight of others through his art of writing seems ambiguous. While considering his novel Untouchable , one can sees that the problem of untouchablily has not been presented as it should be. The voice of the central character is sometimes subsumed by the voice of the author. He poses several questions through the character Bhaka, but seems incompetent to response the age old social problems. The untouchables response to the abuses targeted at him becomes suspect. Whereas, Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste depicts the meta-realistic accounts of his life as a ...