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 ...

Namdeo was 64 and is survived by his wife, Malika Amar Sheikh, who is also a poet and a writer, and his son. Born in an impoverished Dalit (members of oppressed lower castes) family near Pune, Namdeo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Prominent Marathi poet and and founder of Dalit Panthers Party Namdeo Dhasal breathed his last at the Bombay Hospital early this morning. He was 65.He was admitted to hospital last night in a ...

Indeed, with an uncensored vocabulary which imparts a beautiful stain in his notebook, Namdeo Dhasal has shaken society's conventional notion of poetry Dhasal will himself let audiences travel 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.

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