For An Informed Ambedkar Age
On 14th April 2016, on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Koonal Duggal, a Dalit PhD scholar in the Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University, and a guest faculty at the S N School of Fine Arts and Communication, UoH, for the first time learnt that he was no longer …
Essay 6. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Vinay Shende When I read that Round Table India is asking for essays on the theme of ‘what Babasaheb Ambedkar means to me’, it made me ask this question to myself: Is it about his thoughts? Is it his image of standing firm, holding the Constitution …
Essay 5. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Gouri Patwardhan My first encounter with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar outside the school textbook was at the age of 31. I was working as an interpreter cum research assistant with a German documentary filmmaker on a film on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1997. That was the first …
Essay 4. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ মহীতোষ মণ্ডল (Mahitosh Mandal) অসুস্থতার কারনে ২০১৫ সালে রুবি হসপিটালে ভর্তি হই । জীবনের প্রথম অপারেশন ।জীবনে প্রথম হসপিটালে রাত কাটানো । স্বাভাবিকভাবেই তীব্র একাকীত্ব ও ভীতি ঘিরে ধরেছিল । সঙ্গে ছিল একটা ট্যাব আর তাতে আম্বেকরের কয়েকটা টেক্সটের পিডিএফ । ট্যাব ঘাঁটতে ঘাঁটতে খুলে …
Essay 3. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy If I was a tree The bird wouldn’t ask me Before it built its nest What caste I am. ~ Anti-caste literature from members of the outcastes and lower castes in Karnataka has a very long history. The phrase Dalit literature is often …
Essay 2. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Ravindra Kumar Goliya आप सभी को बाबासाहब की १२५वीं जयंती की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं| आप सब से मैं पूछना चाहता हूँ कि हम बाबासाहब की जयंती क्यों मनाते हैं? क्या सिर्फ उन्हें याद करने के लिए? क्या सिर्फ यह याद कर लेने से काम चल जायेगा कि बाबासाहब …
[Via Tejaswi Dantuluri] Disha Science Center, Tellapur in association with Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Hyderabad (ICCR) and J.W.C.S,Telangana Govt. is organizing a world record painting event observing 125th Birth Anniversary of Bharath Ratna, Dr B R Ambedkar at ICCR Art Gallery, Ravindra Bharathi on 10 April 4, 2016 from 8:00 AM to 1:00 …
Round Table India Celebrating Babasaheb’s life and achievements needs no particular occasion, he has emerged as a consciousness, a moral anchor for the masses. A musical tradition of rendering his life events from birth onwards, winding through Mahad, Poona Pact, Kalaram Mandir, Round Table conferences, the constitution itself, the conversion and his death was …
#Occupy UGC – Day 21 – 10th November 2015 Irrespective of day or night we are continuing our occupation at UGC against the UGCs decision of scrapping Non-Net Fellowships and the larger plan of government to sell off education sector to the WTO-GATS. While some of us continue to sit at UGC, many others …