Dalit protest poem
You Wrote from Los Angeles
"In the stores here, in hotels, across the streets,
Indians and curs are measured with the same yard-stick;
‘Niggers’ ‘Blacks’! This is the abuse they fling me
And deep in my heart a thousand scorpions sting me".
Reading all this, I felt so damn good!
Now you’ve had a taste of what we’ve suffered
In this country from generation to generation . . .
-Daya Pawar, 1974
(Translated from Kannada by Graham Smith.)
