amit sengupta::Bant singh is a dalit singer, a protest singer, from mansa in punjab amit sengupta

amit sengupta::Bant singh is a dalit singer, a protest singer, from mansa in punjab.
His minor daughter was raped in 2000, allegedly by goons of the landlords.
In that sense, bant singh did the impossible.
He won the battle, in the court, and in the hearts of the dalits.
And he and his community set a lesson for history: if you resist, if you fight back, there is hope.
That is why this infinite tract of injustice: but the tongue refuses to die.
This is the pattern of new resistance across large parts of semifeudal india.
Like the blacks of the excolonies and the west, with poetry, literature, songs and slogans, collective organisation, defiance and resistance, dalits learnt to use their tongues and their hands.
That is why the savage attack against bant singh.
Even the dignity of the historic struggle he fought in the epic battleground for his daughter.