About the Book: Rising from the Dust: Dalit Stories from Bengal
Rising from the Dust brings together twelve stories that talk about the Dalit
experience in Bengal. What distinguishes this collection is the gendered lens
that explores the Dalit womans cause and holds it up to the light.
While literary stalwarts like Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Tarashankar
Bandopadhyay and Prafulla Roy share their profound understanding of the Dalit
womans fears and traumas, hopes, dreams and aspirations, contemporary voices
Manoranjan Byapari, Bimalendu Haldar, Manohar Mouli Biswas, Kalyani Thakur
Charal, Anil Ghorai and Nakul Mallik explore aspects of survival and social
ostracization with both sensitivity and angst.