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Image of Nataraja in Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram.

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If anyone not of our own 
happens to read this manuscript: 
Heads will roll 
hearts will beat to death 
brains will curdle. 
All that one has learned 
will be lost. 
Now, 
I have placed curses 
on my own words. 
 
 
Translator:

Notes:
This is a Tamil Dalit poem. The Tamil are the Tamil speaking peoples of south India. Dalit is the term for the untouchable casts of India. We found these poems on the web at /www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/SA2004/11608-15-May-_$B!D_(Bg%20SIVANARAYAN.pdf

 
 
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