Days after a row erupted over a Censor Board official asking, “Who is Dhasal?” during certification of a film based on poet Namdeo Dhasal, a group in Pune organised a poetry program named ‘Namdeo ...

Namdeo Dhasal will remembered for his maverick spirit. Photo: Indian Express Archive It’s not for his politics that Namdeo Dhasal will be remembered. Not perhaps even for the Dalit Panthers. He will ...

I could not conceive of a life in which I chose my own happiness over the well-being of my child. Namdeo would often come home. He would often ask permission to return. I was very angry. I wanted ...

Mumbai: Renowned Marathi poet and firebrand activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away today after a prolonged illness. He was 64. Dhasal, who was battling with colorectal cancer, died at the Bombay Hospital.

Namdeo Dhasal is one of my closest friends. This surprises many people who know him and me because of the controversies that his political activities generate and because they cannot, even by ...

The author is the Editor, special features for The Economic Times. [This is the second of two posts partly inspired by the late Namdeo Dhasal’s writings. Sadly, he never seems to have opened the ...

Party chief Malika Amar Sheikh says she has faith in Uddhav’s leadership. Party chief Malika Amar Sheikh says she has faith in Uddhav’s leadership. With various Dalit factions taking sides and backing ...

Noted poet Namdeo Dhasal, who altered the Marathi literary landscape in the 1960s with his protest verse and whose works have been translated in Germany, French and Italian, died after a battle with ...

Noted Marathi poet and one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers, Padma Shri Namdeo Dhasal succumbed to a long-drawn battle against illness including colorectal cancer in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar will be conferred with the Namdeo Dhasal Samashti Award for his contribution to literature and language at a function here on Friday, the city-based Samashti Foundation ...

The world of Marathi literature and poetry lost its most extra-ordinarily talented person today. I believe that Namdeo Dhasal was the best Marathi poet in the last 40 years; not Dalit poet but Marathi ...

This podcast is based on the article "Namdeo Dhasal’s new language" that was published in EPW journal on 27th October, 2018. Yogesh is a poet, columnist, writer and founder of Panther’s Paw ...