In the light of the existing debates on Dalit writing and environment discourses, one is struck with the possibilities of engaging with and exploring the conditions of temporalities that operate in Dalit conditions. In Malayalam Dalit writing, this has raised a number of theoretical issues such as locating the Dalit narratives and the past (s) they try to recontextualise, the perpetual difference seen in the temporal conditions of Dalit lives, and the ontological and ethical status of Dalits punctured in an environment of living and forgetting. This chapter tries to look at Raju K Vasu’s novel Polappatham to situate three basic themes connected to Dalit environments and narratives. The second area of analysis is the historical contingencies of Dalit lives and their breach with the different conditions of environment that makes the Dalit the ‘Other’ to certain other communities. The third area of exploration is the connectivity of Dalit environment and the narration, where their ontological status is both a matter of difference and non-static political representation. Above all, this study argues for a Dalit environment that would challenge the Dalit essentialism by inching Vasu’s narrative to some of the crucial questions of the narrative deviance and Dalit expressions.