COVER STORY
Why is it that Ambedkar and his work does not get the rightful amount of space in textbooks?
Outlook Magazine - 20 August 2012
ISSUE EDITOR: S. ANAND
A top Pakistani official’s ‘act of penance’ for Taliban intolerance raises official hackles
Guilt-tripping on Ambedkar cannot undermine Nehru’s achievements. You could contest his ideas but not his steering of India from colony to nation.
Dalit bards, bhajan mandalis and pamphleteers, largely from Maharashtra, have kept alive the image, the life story and the genius of Ambedkar
A top Pakistani official’s ‘act of penance’ for Taliban intolerance raises official hackles
His stature as a social actor often obscures the value of his scholarship
Guilt-tripping on Ambedkar cannot undermine Nehru’s achievements. You could contest his ideas but not his steering of India from colony to nation.
The everness of Ambedkar’s appeal lends him a messianic quality. Immortality.
For once, Ambedkar whips Nehru—and everyone else. This is how it unfolded...
Dalit bards, bhajan mandalis and pamphleteers, largely from Maharashtra, have kept alive the image, the life story and the genius of Ambedkar
The Dalit presence, onscreen or behind it, has been a bit thin in Indian films
Ambedkar’s Buddhism is a radical, rational reading of the traditional for our times
Bheem Patrika, published since 1958, is our longest-running Dalit periodical
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The deification of Ambedkar and the refusal to countenance any criticism of him is dangerous. The disharmony it breeds works against his cause.
Ambedkar knew that there would be outcasts as long as there are castes
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For most people, it’s just an acronym. The better informed might ask: “Isn’t that the birthplace of Bhimrao Ambedkar?”
