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Wamandada's Anti-Caste Poetry And Music Wamandada's Anti-Caste Poetry And Music 
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- लोकशाहीर वामनदादा कर्डक
In the fields, our sweat drips,The thief steals and runs, with what isn’t hisThe path through which these plunderers escape, where is it?Law, forever, is hung to dry on a clotheslineWhose wealth has swollen, theirs or mineDecide now, fetch the scale of justiceBut its needle, where is it?All the butter flows towards them slidesHere we are hungry for a biteDear Shopkeeper, our bag of flour, where is it?Here our families sleep nakedThere, they drape a saree over anotherThis impoverished woman’s clothes, where are they?Here’s there’s just salt, chillies and some lentil brothThey dine on chicken, with a knife and forkOur chicken cutlet and our fork, tell us, where are they?Come, everyone, search togetherSearch all the mansions, streetsWaman dada, where are our anklet bells?
—Excerpts from a poem by Wamandada (Translated from Marathi by Mayabhushan Nagvenkar)
Waman Kardak (1992-2004)
Popularly known as Wamandadavictory casino, was a Marathi singer, musician, poet and lyricist who changed the structure and politics of music. He used for his songs and poems a language which cannot be distinguished from the vernacular of the masses, the Dalit-bahujans of Maharashtra among whom he lived and wrote most of his songs. Wamandada wrote and performed for 55 years. He arrived as a poet when the Ambedkar movement was reaching its climax in the form of the Buddhist conversions of 1956. Wamandada’s songs amplified what Babasaheb Ambedkar had spoken about.
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