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Dalit literature is one of the important fields developing in the Indian Writing in English. Dalit literature is a literature which studies the life journey of people who belongs to marginalized community. It includes the sufferings and pain undergone by a dalit or untouchable among other higher ranking people in the society. The main objectives of the article are to explore the themes and ideas proposed in Indian dalit literature, to study the pain and sufferings of dalit community through Karna, to evaluate the status of dalits in the contemporary India, to portray the prevailing caste and class discrimination in the society and to envision people about the sudden need for bringing equality in the society. The research article navigates the unsung hero of Mahabharata Karna in the light of the dalit context as he faced the issues of caste discrimination throughout his life. It also explains that how the Karna's life is perfectly blended with the lives of the dalit people in the Indian society through certain issues. The article statement enlightens that a dalit individual has the right and liberty to have education and identity of their own despite the caste differences and it questions the concept of equality when several people are not treated as such.