Editorial | 20 December 2023 | Indian Express

Tamil Dalit writer Bama spent a considerable part of her teaching career in government schools in rural Tamil Nadu, coaxing first-generation Dalit students to come to a place that had often had no place for their forefathers. No stranger to ostracism , she was aware that it took careful hand-holding. In an interview to this paper in 2018, Bama spoke of how she would begin lessons by telling her students that she loved them and would be there for them, encouraging them to learn, to be at ease occupying space in an institutional environment meant to free them of caste oppressions.

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