Kalyani Thakur Charal is a Dalit feminist poet writing in the Bengali language. She has published four volumes of poetry, a collection of critical essays, a collection of short stories, and an autobiography. She edits the Dalit women’s magazine Neer, is on the board of a publishing house focusing solely on Dalit writers, and on the Dalit Sahitya Akademi. She recently edited Dalit Lekhika: Women’s Writing from Bengal. Kalyani’s vision of social justice, democracy and equality is inspiring and powerful.

Join her for poetry and readings from her novel Andhar Bil, and a discussion about her activist and editorial work. Tilted Axis Press will publish I Belong to Nowhere: Poems of Hope and Resistance, translated by Mrinmoy Pramanick and Sipra Mukherjee on 30 March 2023.

For more information: ar75@soas.ac.uk