A window to poverty

Dalit literature provides a window in to poverty that other books do not. Oh yes, Tolstoy, Dickens, and Tagore did write about poverty but the works by people who have experienced extreme poverty is a lot more compelling and eye opening. Poverty is a lot worse than that described by Tagore or Tolstoy because a poor person laments more the deprivation of his soul than stomach. For some reason most people (including me) believe that a certain group of people can face hardships better than others and that is the myth these windows burst.