Arundhati Roy on Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld (1972–2006), quoted in the Guardian:
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In Search of India

Published in The Guardian, 18 April 2009

“I recommend [this] raw, disturbing stuff. I don’t agree with his politics now (he supports the Hindutva brigade), but his work should be read because it tells of what a brutal society we live in.”

Vijay Prashad, in Himal Southasian, on Anand Teltumbde’s Khairlanji:

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Rural Dalit ghetto: ‘Khairlanji’ by Anand Teltumbde
Published in Himal Southasian, April 2009
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“…a book that will never allow [the Khairlanji] massacre to be forgotten. Nor will it allow us to think of it as an aberration…Teltumbde has created a solid corpus of work that bears witness to the degradation of Indian democracy, and to the capacity of Indian socialism. India’s revolution is sharpened on the anvil of [his] thoughts.”