Chandrabhan Prasad

Chandrabhan Prasad

Chandra Bhan Prasad is a Dalit writer whose main claim to fame is as the first Dalit to have a regular column in an Indian English newspaper.

Prasad started writing a weekly column titled "Dalit Diary" in 1999 for "The Pioneer", an English daily with a limited circulation in Delhi and Lucknow. Recently [http://www.navayana.org/ | Navayana] published a compilation of all the articles in this column from 1999 - 2003 as a book of the same name.

Prasad was born in September 1958 in a village in Azamgarh district of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Both his parents were illiterate, but the family had sufficient agricultural land. Prasad went to JNU, for his MA in International Politics, and enrolled for a Ph.D.which he did not complete. Chandra got involved in student politics during his BA studies, and joined the CPI [ML] party [ [http://www.ambedkar.org/chandrabhan/interview.htm An interview with CHANDRA BHAN PRASAD ] ]

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* [http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=103&category=Nation&catID=2 Quota benefits should go to new social proletariat] By Chandra Bhan Prasad


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