Don’t Want Caste : Malayalam Stories by Dalit Writers

‘Why did the kanikonna blossom? It shouldn't have | knowing that no one would pay it heed anyway.’ This anthology answers The question raised by a voice within it. Selected from seven decades of Dalit writing in Malayalam and presented in New translations by abhirami Girija sriram and N. Ravi Shanker | these twenty three stories | farcical and magical | terse and baroque | domestic and picaresque | reveal that the disregarded Laburnum in the forest has blazed with beauty all these years | and we should be the poorer for neglecting it.