LIFE OF TUSHAR BHAGYAWANT: AS DEPICTED IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL: KONDAL

'Kondal' a novel by Tushar Bhagyawant deals with the sorrows and sufferings of the dalits; where as their struggle for existence. It is a story of violence, discrimination and exploitation made by the people from upper-strata of the society. It is realistic picture of the society projected honestly by the writer. The various incidents described in the novel are touching. The writer who belongs to the new generation of Dalit writers of the post-independence era gives faithful account of the socio-economic condition in Maharashtra; whereas the dominance of castism that still exists after more than 65 years of independence. Whatever he has experienced in his life reflected in the fiction. He is a typical representative example of dalit who has been still suffering being a dalit, even though he is educated and serving in the noble profession of teaching. His novel is an attempt to expose the sorrows and sufferings of dalits in Maharashtra.