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His writings got translated into many languages, touching readers worldwide. Portraying accounts of the underprivileged living on the edges with a quirky humour - ‘Imaan’ is his 26th book - Byapari quickly cemented his spot in the Dalit literature firmament, garnering awards. He honed his natural ability to conjure up tales by following his passion for reading.Įver since Mahasweta Devi, who on a chance ride in his rickshaw, discovered the man’s potential and published his story in her journal, the ink in Byapari’s pen has not dried.
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Having never gone to school, Byapari, incredibly, picked the Bengali alphabet in jail from a fellow inmate, a twig and a sandy patch serving as pen and paper. Like the circumstances and predicaments faced by the men and women so evocatively portrayed in ‘Imaan’, the author has lived that marginal life for many years - doing odd jobs, as a rickshaw-puller, cook and domestic help and even serving time in prison. For, Byapari - the now famous Bengali litterateur, chairperson of the state’s Dalit Sahitya Akademi and MLA from Mamata Banerjee’s party - has seen it all first hand. THERE cannot be a more credible and immersive novel on the starkly harsh conditions of the paupers, the ill-fated millions who have to struggle and work hard to eke out a living or fight every minute just to survive as well as of petty criminals frequenting prisons, than Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Imaan’.