It’s a humid evening in April when I meet Ashalata Kamble in
her suburban Mumbai home, a short distance from the local railway station. A
warm and generous host, she teaches literature at Mumbai University and
regularly lectures on Ambedkarite Buddhism around the state. She also
researches the early writings of Buddhist nuns and is an active feminist poet.
All these combine to make her an important addition for my
research on women writers of Dalit literature. Ashalata brings rapt atten