PALAVARCHA JAG (Marathi)

THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE STORIES OF EXPLOITED PEOPLE. EACH ARTICLE MAKES US SHIVER. THE WANDERING TRIBES LEAD INHUMAN LIFE. THEY SUFFER INJUSTICE, POVERTY, IGNORANCE, AND PAIN. ‘YALLAPPACHA CHANG’ IS A STORY OF THE STRUGGLE AND EMANCIPATION OF A SOCIETY ALMOST COLLAPSED. THOSE LIVING IN THE TEMPORARY SETTLEMENTS SURVIVE ONLY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT DIE. THEIR LIFE IS FULL OF UNCERTAINTY AND OPPRESSION. THEY ARE DISROBED OF THEIR SELF-RESPECT (VAIDU, KAIKADI, KOLHATI, GOSAVI-BAIRAGI, DAVARI GOSAVI, BHARADI-KAANFATE, KINGRIVALE, BALSANTOSHI, PARADHI, TAKARI BHAMTA, RAJPUT BHAMTA, KANJAARBHAAT AND ALL THE 18 TRIBES). THE HIGH SOCIETY CONSIDERS THEM LOWLY. WHO IS THEIR SAVIOUR? WHEN WILL THEY WAKE UP? WHEN WILL THEIR MINDS IGNITE? THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORKERS HAVE CALLED IN A MOVEMENT FOR THEIR FREEDOM AND HAVE BEEN PUNISHED AND LOCKED UP. THE AUTHOR HAS JUST ONE AIM – FREEDOM FOR THESE TRIBES. HIS STORIES LIKE ‘MANUSKICHI NAVI WAAT’, JAHIRNAMA-NANDIVALYANCYA DUHKHACHA’, ‘MARNANANTARAHI JAAT ADAVI’, ‘FATALELA ABHAL’ PORTRAY THE UNIMAGINABLE POVERTY, MISERY, STRUGGLE, PROBLEMS, DEFIANCE, ETC. THIS SOCIETY IS STAMPED AS ‘CRIMINALS’. THEY ARE BURIED DEEP IN POVERTY AND MISERY. THE DALIT MOVEMENT IS CURSED BY LEADERSHIP, AND THIS SOCIETY IS CURSED BY ITS UNDESIRABLE PRACTICES. THIS HAS RESULTED IN CREATING HOARDS OF UNEMPLOYED AND HELPLESS PEOPLE. THEY ARE CURSED, LABELLED AS CRIMINALS, AND LEFT UNFED. THE WOMEN FOLK HAVE TO UNDERGO TERRIBLE ANGUISH, INJUSTICE, AND RAPE; LIFE BECOMES A NIGHTMARE FOR THEM. THEY ARE TERRORISED CONTINUOUSLY. BEING BORN AS A WOMAN IS LIKE THE BIGGEST CURSE FOR THEM. LIFE IN THEIR TEMPORARY SETTLEMENTS IS DISGUSTING. ‘PALAVARCHA JAG.’ IN HIS ‘UPARA’, HE PRESENTS THEIR AGONY AND DEPRIVATION. HIS ‘BAND DARWAJA’ IS A PLATFORM FROM WHERE HE TALKS AS A TRUE SOCIAL WORKER ABOUT THE WANDERING TRIBES. THE NAKED TRUTH SCORCHES OUR HEARTS. THE AUTHOR SEARCHED FOR THE SETTLEMENTS OF THESE WANDERING TRIBES, TALKED TO THEM, AND SPOKE ABOUT THE INJUSTICE THEY HAD TO SUFFER. HIS WRITING AIMS AT ONE THING – HE DOES NOT WANT THEM TO BE DEPRIVED OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ANYMORE. HIS WRITING HIGHLIGHTS THESE POINTS. HE CRAVES TO BRING THEM INTO THE MAINSTREAM, ALLOWING THEM TO LEAD A LITERATE AND CULTURED LIFE, A LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING WHERE IGNORANCE IS DRIVEN FAR AWAY. HENCE, AUTHOR LAXMAN MANE BRINGS FATHOMLESS AND LIMITLESS AGONY THROUGH HIS STORIES. EACH OF HIS STORIES MAKES US SEE THROUGH WORDS AND REACH REALITY. HE IS SURE THAT THE SETTLEMENTS WILL SOMEDAY FIND A DEFINITE SHAPE. THE ‘PALAVARCHA JAG’ IS A BRUTAL, TERRIBLE, BURNING REALITY.