In search of the self: A critical study of neerav patel's mess

Unlike other literature Dalit literature deals with the real life experience experienced by the writer or by the people in the community. It portrays the real life suffering faced by the lower caste men and women in the form of religion, caste and gender and class. As Dalit don'st have a personal life as their life is constrained with the community and anything affects them as a whole they voice out for their well being. The Dalit men face the domination of the male from the upper caste and they act as a slave to them and Dalit women face the domination and inequality from the upper caste men and from the men from their own community as women and as Dalit women. The humiliation, tormentation, suffering, depression which the Dalit have faced all these years have burst out into the form of writing and through constructing their own literature the Dalits express their rights and identity through various genre and one among them is poetry. The proposition of the present paper will deal with the poem “Mess”. It brings out the long silenced feeling of a Dalit of how he is being treated by the caste Hindus in the society.