A voice of and from the margins
by Romita Datta
Dec 23, 2019
2 minutes
Manoranjan Byapari, 69
Writer and activist, Kolkata
Manoranjan Byapari, the celebrated Dalit Bengali writer, has taken on many odd jobs in life-as a rickshaw-puller, a sweeper, watchman, cook or whatever else came his way. Through all this, though, he stuck unwaveringly to his one and only passion-writing. His pen, soaked in the sweat,
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