How did interest for writing develop in mill workers?
Answer:
- Workers in factories were too overworked and lacked in education to write much about their experiences. But Kashi baba a Kanpur mill worker, wrote and published ‘Chhote Aur Bade Ka SawaT, to show the links between caste and class exploitation.
- The poems of another Kanpur mill worker, who wrote under the name of ‘Sudarshan Chakra’ and published a collection of poems called ‘Sacchi Kavitayen’.
- By 1930s, Bangalore cotton mill workers set up libraries to educate themselves, following the example of Bombay workers.