![]() ![]() The characters of MotherWit, mostly women, are individuals living in a caste-rigid, patriarchal society. MotherWit is an anthology of short stories where Urmila Pawar concocts fictitious and real elements together to portray the complexities and hardships of the Dalit community. ![]() While Weave of my life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir is a direct transcription of her life in the form of an autobiography, MotherWit is an anthology of short stories where she concocts fictitious and real elements together to portray the complexities and hardships of the Dalit community. She identifies herself as a Dalit, Buddhist feminist and voices her lived experience as one through literature. ![]() Urmila Pawar, born two years prior to 1947, has been a witness to the said society from the early days of India’s conception as a free nation. It refused to accept and identify the social hierarchy that existed in favour of the Brahminical hegemony. India, in its early days of independence, was even more caste rigid than it is today. ![]()
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