Enoch’s social face to the fore
A.D. RANGARAJAN
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Seeing society from the other side.
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Creative and revolutionary Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch with his works.
Four books authored by Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch, former vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University , were released at a function organised by the state unit of Bharatiya Dalita Sahitya Academy in Tirupati recently.
The books, Sarkar Gaddi, Kolupulu, Kattadi and Ananta Jeevanam reveal the ordeal, aspirations, disenchantment and the not-so-conspicuous glimmer of hope in the eyes of the socially-oppressed sections
Kattadi is a compendium of short stories in which the main story with that name discusses the restriction imposed on the members of the Madiga community from the village water sources and their resultant woes. Kolupulu is also a similar work, with the focus extensively laid on social imbalances, gender inequity, starvation and deprivation of basic rights.
Ananta Jeevanam is about the poverty-stricken people in the arid Anantapur district, where the parched throats perennially look for a drop of water to quench thirst. The book also dwells on the rich-poor divide endemic to the district
since centuries. Sarkar Gaddi is about the conduct of fodder camps by the Government in villages faced with abject drought conditions and the travails of small and marginal Dalit farmers in procuring fodder for their cattle.
SVU vice-chancellor S. Jayarama Reddy released the books and praised Prof.Enoch as a creative and revolutionary writer, while the local MLA M.Venkataramana described him as a multi-faceted personality.
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