Urdu writer Jayant Parmar converges on the idea of caste as a sensorial regime, attracting not only readers’ eyes and ears, but also their olfactory senses to understand the plight of the Dalit communities.
Legendary comedians Jaspal Bhatti and Moin Akhter on either side of the India–Pakistan border showed the mirror to their hypocritical governments and societies, but with hearty laughs.
The economic exploitation of the underprivileged, gender oppression and the abuse of power are the eternal themes in the verse of the Marxist feminist poet, Sahir Ludhianvi.
