Ravikumar (writer)

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Duraisamy Ravikumar
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Photo for Lok Sabha in 2019
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
23 May 2019
EducationLL.B., Tamil University; M.A., Ph.D, Annamalai University
Occupation VCK General Secretary

Duraisamy Ravikumar, popularly known as D. Ravikumar (born 29 May, 1961), is an Indian Tamil intellectual, writer, lawyer, politician and an anti-caste activist. He was the editor of the magazine, Nirapirikai. Nirapirikai inspired several new writers in the 1990s in Tamil Nadu. [1] He is an Ambedkarite and Buddhist. [2] Ravikumar is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Viluppuram and member of the [Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi]]. [3] [4]

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Career

Ravikumar is the founder of the anti-caste publishing house Navayana, along with S. Anand, and the former president of the People's Education Movement (Makkal Kalvi Eyakkam) and PUCL (Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry).[ citation needed ]

Ravikumar was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Kattumannarkoil, Cuddalore district, and served from 2006 to 2011. [5] He was instrumental in bringing a new policy to handle EWaste in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu government started a skill development program and Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, created six welfare boards, both at the request of Ravikumar.[ citation needed ]

In 2010, Ravikumar won the Aringar Anna Award, conferred by the Tamil Nadu Government. Vikatan Awards for Translation ( 2014) Thiranayvu chemmal award for literary criticism (2019) manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Bharathi Award (2019) Vitiyal Trust Chennai.[ citation needed ]

Writings

Books

Prose

Kaanalaay marum kaveri (2018) Manarkeni Ayiram Pookkal Karukattum (2019) Manarkeni

Poetry

Short stories

Translations

Editing

Tamil

  • Dalit Literature, Politics, Culture (1996)
  • Dalit Engira Thanitthuvum (1998) Dalit Publication
  • Iyothee Thaas Panditar Cintanaikal (four volumes) (1999) Dalit Sahitya Academy
  • Rettaimalai Srinivasan Jeevida Carithira Curukkam (1999) (Autobiography) Dalit Sahitya Academy
  • Mikai Naadum Kalai (2003) (Essays on cinema) kalachuvadu
  • Dalit journal
  • Bodhi journal
  • Manarkeni journal

English

  • We, the Condemned (1999) (Against Death Penalty) PUCL, Pondicherry
  • Ravikumar; Azhagarasan, R., eds. (2012). The Oxford India anthology of Tamil Dalit writing (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-807938-5. [5]

References

  1. Satyanarayana and Tharu (2011). No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India. New Delhi: Penguin India. p. 258. ISBN   978-0-143-41426-1.
  2. "Want the complete annihilation of caste: First-time MP D Ravikumar". 23 July 2019.
  3. "Members : Lok Sabha".
  4. S, Mohamed Imranullah (8 September 2021). "Villupuram MP Ravikumar tells HC he is a member of the DMK". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  5. 1 2 Kolappan, B. (20 March 2012). "Tamil Dalit writing set to go English". The Hindu.

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