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Laxman Gaikwad (2024)

Laxman  Maruti Gaikwad, hailing from Latur district of Maharashtra, is one of the most prominent names in Marathi literature.

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Urmila Pawar (2020)

The great Marathi writer Urmila is known for her frank and direct style of writing, which reflects her own experiences of the myriad difficulties of being a woman and that, too,a Dalit.

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Manoranjan Byapari (2019)

The convict-turned-rickshaw puller-turned writer is a socio-political activist. Known as the pioneer of Dalit literature in Bengali, he was nakedly illiterate till he was sentenced to a jail term, from where he learnt to read and write.

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Baby Halder (2018)

Baby Halder is an Indian domestic help and author, whose acclaimed autobiography Aalo Aandhari (A Life Less Ordinary) in 2006 describes her harsh life growing up and as a domestic worker.

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Haldhar Nag (2017)

Best known as Lok Kabi Ratna. Haldhar Nag is a Sambalpuri language poet and writer from Odisha, India. Nag was born in a poor family of Ghens in Bargarh district of Odisha on March 31, 1950. He lost his father at the age of ten.

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