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`Dalits are true architects of State'

Staff Reporter

SHIMOGA: Additional Director-General of Police (Crime and Internal Security) and writer Subhash Bharani has said that Dalits were the true architects of the State and its language.

Mr. Bharani was speaking at the inaugural session of a seminar on "Dalit-Bandaya literature" here at the 73rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan on Friday.

It was the Dalits who developed the villages, towns and cities by their manual labour. Language and literature blossomed out of the oral tradition that Dalits practised for centuries, he said. Although Kannada language was 2,000 years old, the unwritten history of Dalits was 3,000 years old, he said. But for the manual and skilled labour of Dalits, temples, churches, mosques and even the Vidhana Soudha would not have come up, he said.

The former Minister and writer B.T. Lalitha Naik, poet K.B. Siddaiah, H. Nagaveni, and writer Sarfraj Chandragutti spoke. The noted literary critic Purushottama Belimale presided over the seminar.

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