A SUMMARY OF G.KALYANA RAO'S "UNTOUCHABLE SPRING"

A SUMMARY OF G.KALYANA RAO'S "UNTOUCHABLE SPRING"

        ✅ G.Kalyana Rao , one of the most famous Indian novelists , is such a personality that believes in revolutionary ideology . In the history of Dalit literature , the first and foremost novel that illuminates inhumanity , exploitation and suppression done upon Dalit people who undergo several misfortunes and spare very tough times , strongly holding their generation is " Untouchable Spring " ( originally "Antaryani Basantam" in Telugu ) by G.Kalyana Rao . The novel was first published in 2000 . He , through this novel , has penned and pictured a portrait of the real societal atrocities and brutalities . It is a historiographical testimony of a Dalit experience , a Dalit Christian experience that explores a prolonged struggle , suffering and pain . It has to be mentioned that "Untouchable Spring" is a memory text . Ruth , a key character of this novel , is a storyteller here . 

             The novel has a dedication in which the novelist wishes the Spring with enduring love to his mother and father along with the four martyrs named Shyam , Mahesh , Murali and Lakshmirajam . Four of them were revolutionary leaders at the time when the novel was woven . 

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     At the initial stage of the novel , the writer gives us an acquaintance with Ruth . Once she was a nurse at a hospital . As a result of her husband Reuben's death , Ruth lethargically sits all day long alone in grief , patiently staring at the vast sky where there is a lone star visible . She says - " as silently as Reuben came into her life , he left just as silently " , showering springs on her life . Most of the memories Ruth possesses have been shared by Reuben . As she immerses herself in her memorial torpor , she feels Reuben share his past heart-wrenching incidental memories left behind . Before that , the scream of Yennela Pitta , an imaginary bird of the writer .