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<div>'''Malika Amar Sheikh''' or '''Malika Namdeo Dhasal''' (born 16 February 1957) is a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] writer and political activist from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2727 |title=Poetry International Web - Malika Amar Sheikh |publisher=India.poetryinternationalweb.org |date= |accessdate=2012-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508222721/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2727 |archive-date=2014-05-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is the president of the [[Dalit Panthers]] party.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Malika Amar Sheikh was born on 16 February 1957 to Shahir Amar Sheikh.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/news/MAG-article-on-mallika-amar-shaikh-marathi-poet-4272280-NOR.html|title=परखड आणि स्पष्टवक्ती मल्लिका|date=2013-05-24|newspaper=Marathi.Divya|access-date=2016-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510080634/http://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/news/MAG-article-on-mallika-amar-shaikh-marathi-poet-4272280-NOR.html|archive-date=2017-05-10|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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She is the daughter of [[Shahir Amar Sheikh]], and the wife of the late [[Namdeo Dhasal]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dhasals-times-of-irony-and-anger/215603/| title=Dhasal's times of irony and anger | author=Rakshit Sonawane | date= 11 September 2007| work=The Indian Express}}</ref><br />
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She was married to Dalit poet, and co-founder of the Dalit Panthers, [[Namdeo Dhasal|Namdev Dhasal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cosal.uchicago.edu/2014/author.shtml|title=The Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature|website=cosal.uchicago.edu|access-date=2016-10-18}}</ref> After the death of her husband, she was elected the president of the [[Dalit Panthers]] party. She led the party during [[Maharashtra]] civic bodies elections in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/malika-amar-shaikh-memoir-namdeo-dhasal-life-left-and-dalit-movement-in-maharashtra-4397157/|title=The Heart is a Lonely Woman - Life of Malika Amar Sheikh|website=indianexpress.com|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
* ''Valucha Priyakar'' (A Lover Made of Sand)<br />
* ''Mahanagar'' (Metropolitan City)<br />
* ''Deharutu'' (The Season of Body)<br />
* ''Mala Udhvasta Whaychay'' (I Want to Get Ruined) (Autobiography)<br />
* ''Handle With Care''<br />
* ''Ek Hota Undir'' (Story Of A Rat)<br />
* ''Koham Koham'' (Who Am I?)<br />
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===Anthologies===<br />
* ''Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry, edited and translated by Sachin Ketkar, Mumbai: Poetrywala, 2005, {{ISBN|81-89621-00-9}}<br />
* ''The Tree of Tongues — An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', edited by E.V. Ramakrishnan. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99nov07/book.htm |title=tribuneindia...Book Reviews |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |date=1999-11-07 |accessdate=2012-04-24}}</ref><br />
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