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Noted Dalit poet Shankar Parmar, popularly generally known as Shankar Painter, died of age-related problems at a hospital in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. He was 74. Known for his highly effective poetic expression of caste-based oppression, Painter was a local of Varshila village of Sidhpur tehsil in Patan district of North Gujarat. He is survived by his spouse, three sons and a daughter.
One of Painter’s sons, Rajesh mentioned, “For the past sometime, he was admitted at hospital owing to age-related complications. And he breathed his last today morning.”
Known Gujarati author and poet Raju Solanki referred to as Painter’s contribution to Gujarati Dalit poetry as a major landmark.
“He was not as literate as some of the other known Dalit poets in Gujarati. He started working as a painter in the oil and gas company; and subsequently he started writing poems by the name Shankar Painter. His poems mark a powerful expression of caste-based oppression; that too in a typical Mehsani dialect (of North Gujarat),” mentioned Solanki.
“He was creating poems on the basis of folk songs in Mehsani dialect and that was his signature style,” mentioned Solanki, including that Painter got here into prominence as a poet in literary circles after the 1981 anti-reservation riots in Gujarat.
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