IBN-Lokmat presents an inspiring story of Namdeo Dhasal, a Marathi writer and Dalit activist, only on Great Bhet

Great Bhet gives you an opportunity to know more about this stirring and inspirational story of Namdeo Dhasal only on IBN-Lokmat on Saturday, 11th June 2011 at 9:30 pm. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 12, 2011 - Poverty sits by the cradle of great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Namdeo Dhasal was one such great man brought up in abject poverty, where throughout his childhood he was always suppressed for a life that every child needs for nurturing. He spent his childhood in Golpitha, a red light district in Mumbai, where his father worked for a butcher. But as luck would have it, bright that he was, he grew up to become one of the most sought after poets in the country. Great Bhet gives you an opportunity to know more about this stirring and inspirational story of Namdeo Dhasal only on IBN-Lokmat on Saturday, 11th June 2011 at 9:30 pm.

Born in 1949, Namdeo Dhasal is Maharashtra's leading Dalit poet and the only Indian poet to have received a Lifetime Achievement Award from country's top literary institution, the Sahitya Akademi. For his distinguished contribution to literature he has been awarded the title Padmashri by the President of India. Dhasal is a quintessentially Mumbai poet having authored nine books of poetry. Raw, raging, associative, almost carnal in its tactility, his poetry emerges from the underbelly of the city. He was in his mid-twenties when he published his epoch-making first collection of poems Golpitha named after the notorious centre of prostitution in central Mumbai where he grew up. This was then the heart of Mumbai's underworld and even today possesses the characteristics of a neighborhood where everything illicit, criminal, despicable, exploitative and inhuman finds a natural home.

Apart from his poetry, Namdeo Dhasal is also known for the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a militant activist organization founded by him, at that time inspired by the Black Panthers in the United States.

Know more about this journey from "rags to riches" of Namdeo Dhasal on Saturday 11th June 2011 at 9:30 pm in Great Bhet only on IBN-Lokmat.

You can also watch this episode on Sunday i.e. 12th June 2011 @ 12:00 pm & 5:00 pm.

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