White Paper -Sharan Kumar Lumbale
Unit – 5 White Paper Sharan Kumar Lumbale Summary of the poem "White Paper" T he poem depicts the pain of Dalits being rejected and outcast in the society, which equally belongs to them, by the upper cast. Dalits have not done any harm to any upper cast in India. Still they are met with utmost hatred and disrespect by other members of the society. In the poem the poet is expressing his deepest desire to be treated as a human being which suggests the horrible and pathetic condition of the people belonging to lower casts. In the beginning lines of the poem the poet says he rejects all the physical, material,religious and sensual comforts that are available to people of higher cast for many centuries.In return he asks only for basic rights which are essential for any human being for existence. In the next lines the poet is making clear that he wants his rights not as a beggar but as a rightful recipient.He says that each breath from his lungs...