The article studies Dalit women’s political poetry from Marathi, Telugu and Tamil languages (translated into English) to demonstrate how Dalit feminism formulates a body of thought that balances both the identities of being a Dalit and a woman.

“In a poem strongly reminiscent of Robert Lowell’s similarly valedictory “Sailing Home from Rapallo”, Debakanya Haldar tracks the mixed feelings left after the death of a close relative (‘loved one’ would seem like a glaring euphemism). Haldar investigates numbness and the instability of our un/feeling relationships with our environments in the wake of grief.” - Edwards, S. B., Chambre, S., Burns, W., Walsh, D., Lewis, D. & Helmers, M., (2022) “Unfeeling”, Moveable Type 14(1).

Forthcoming