"Our democracy may be in danger, but the democracy in Literature is thriving. Literature does not recognize caste, gender or colour. It does not follow the rules of society," declared Prof. Namwar Singh, noted litterateur and recipient of the Sahitya Academy Award.
He was delivering the Fourth Silver Jubilee Lecture on 'The Democracy of Literature: Place of the Marginalised', organized by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) at the Convention Centre in its main campus.
The focus of the lecture was on various stages in the history of conflict between society and literature. Prof. Singh stressed that Literature is democratic. He presented several examples from the writings of prominent Hindi writers like Nirala, Sudama Pandey ‘Dhumil'. He read out from the poems of the above writers to illustrate how they placed 'Dalits’in their compositions.
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