Om Prakash Valmiki as the Spokesperson of Class Consciousness in Joothan

Abstract

Om Prakash Valmiki as the spokesperson of consciousness speaks on working class position by identifying the exploitation and ways of striking them in his Joothan. The research work analyzes the Indian society from the viewpoint of commodity culture which is used to describe capitalism. Within today's culture everything has become a product to be bought and sold in the market place. Commodity culture also infers the naturalization of this system to the extent that we cannot imagine another way of living. Here, commoditization is used to represent the exploitation of the common people in division of society. Valmiki tries to show the class consciousness by taking the issues of binary between the upper and the lower people through Joothan. Valmiki, as a spokesperson, has represented miserable condition, alienation and many others that has to be faced by the working class people. However, his lifetime actions clearly lead towards the path of conflict along with other characters for the welfare of working class people.