‘A rickshaw puller will be in the Assembly’ Dalit writer Manoranjan Byapari, contesting the Balagarh seat, talks his arrival in politics Prasun Chaudhuri | | Published 04.04.21, 12:52 AM
When I called up Manoranjan Byapari sometime end-February, he was busy with the launch of the English version of the first part of his semi-autobiographical Chandal Jiban trilogy, The Runaway Boy. He had been travelling in and out of Calcutta, attending book signing events and readers’ meets. In addition, as the chairman of the newly formed Dalit Sahitya Academy of Bengal, he was hopping from meeting to seminar as part of an effort to publish an anthology of works by writers from backward classes. In the meantime, there was also a low hum about him joining the Trinamul ahead of t
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