The DSS and Dalit actions have contributed immensely to Kannada literature. Writers together with Dr. Siddalingaiah, a famous poet, and Devanura Mahadeva, novelist and storyteller, have been concerned within the actions because the early Seventies. They had been instrumental in organising the convention of Dalit Writers and Artists in 1976. Together with Krishnappa and others, they performed a job in holding the primary conference of Dalit college students in Kolar in 1983.
Siddalingaiah’s poems reached a bigger viewers via the activists of the DSS. His poems had been prompt hits, changing into anthems of kinds of the motion. The activists of DSS would start their programmes singing Siddalingaiah’s poems.
Famous critic D.R. Nagaraj, in his The Flaming Ft, says, “There are two different modes of Dalit writing and they can be called the schools of ‘social rage’ and ‘spiritual quest’.” He places the writers – Siddalingaiah, Mullur Nagaraj, Mogalli Ganesh, Aravind Malagatti, Ma.Na. Javaraiah, Munivenkatappa, Gangaram Chandala, Chinnaswamy and Indudhara Honnapura — within the faculty of “social rage”, which concentrates “basically on the experiences of anger, agony, and revolutionary hope.”
Dr. Nagaraj contains Devanura Mahadeva, Okay.B. Siddaiah and Govindaiah within the faculty of “spiritual quest” as a result of their works tried to “understand the world of poverty and untouchability in terms of metaphysical dismay over the nature of human relationships.”
These writers haven’t solely enriched Kannada literature via their inventive works, but in addition labored in direction of bringing Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s writings into Kannada.