Sumeet Samos
Sumeet Samos is an Indian anti-caste scholar and rapper from Odisha, India. He writes and sings in English, Hindi and Odia. His first hip-hop single "Ladai Seekh Le" was released in 2018.
Samos addresses Scheduled [Castes and Scheduled Tribes|SC/ST] students, Savarna oppression, Ambedkar-Phule ideology, manual scavenging, caste discrimination and atrocities against Dalits in his songs.
Life
Sumeet Samos was born into a Dalit family of Tentulipadar village of Koraput district, Odisha. He completed his schooling from Bhubaneswar. He has a Masters in Latin American Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he joined the Ambedkar Phule Students' Association">B. R. Ambedkar">Ambedkar Phule Students' Association. In 2021, he enrolled for the MSc Programme in Modern Asian Studies from the University of Oxford., and based on his experiences of caste in academics there he wrote an informative piece for Round Table India He also published his memoirs, Affairs of Caste: A Young Diary in July 2022. The book is a Panther's Paw publication.Samos started rapping in 2016 and his inspiration is the rapper Tupac Shakur.