Manju Bala is one of the emerging writers in the Bengali Dalit literary world. She is a Dalit feminist as well as an activist who has been fighting for the rights of the women from the marginalised community. Her stories, poems and essays are all about the hardships and sufferings of those from the lower castes. She is the seer for the lower caste people who are struggling to annihilate the casteism and desperately searching for human dignity and identity.