- Chandrabhan Prasad
Chandra Bhan Prasad is a Dalit writer whose main claim to fame is as the first Dalit to have a regular column in an
India n English newspaper.Prasad started writing a weekly column titled "Dalit Diary" in 1999 for "The Pioneer", an English daily with a limited circulation in Delhi and Lucknow. Recently [http://www.navayana.org/ | Navayana] published a compilation of all the articles in this column from 1999 - 2003 as a book of the same name.
Prasad was born in September 1958 in a village in Azamgarh district of Eastern
Uttar Pradesh . Both his parents were illiterate, but the family had sufficient agricultural land. Prasad went to JNU, for his MA in InternationalPolitics , and enrolled for a Ph.D.which he did not complete. Chandra got involved in student politics during his BA studies, and joined the CPI [ML] party [ [http://www.ambedkar.org/chandrabhan/interview.htm An interview with CHANDRA BHAN PRASAD ] ]References
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* [http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=103&category=Nation&catID=2 Quota benefits should go to new social proletariat] By Chandra Bhan Prasad
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