Unraveling the Enigma: Anand Teltumbde's New Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Unraveling the Enigma: Anand Teltumbde's New Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Hindustan Times  

An acclaimed social activist and researcher Anand Teltumbde has penned a comprehensive biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. The book delves into the complexities of Ambedkar's life, highlighting his shifting stances on various issues, including partition, women's rights, and the Constitution. Teltumbde meticulously examines Ambedkar's personal and political journey, revealing the contradictions and inconsistencies that have shaped his legacy. The book offers a nuanced understanding of the man who has inspired and challenged generations of Dalits in India.

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The anti-bhakt: review of Anand Teltumbde’s Iconoclast — A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The anti-bhakt: review of Anand Teltumbde’s Iconoclast — A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

The Hindu  

The most iconic image of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar depicts him holding a copy of the Constitution. Anand Teltumbde, a leading authority on Ambedkar and the Dalit movement, raises several such discomfiting questions in Iconoclast, a “reflective biography”. Filtering a story Teltumbde states upfront that he isn’t interested in “the pretence of presenting any new facts.” Rather, his objective as a …

Newsletter on winter, mountains, and Ambedkar
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Newsletter on winter, mountains, and Ambedkar

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 05, 2024 13:01 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear Reader, As winter sets in with its usual markers—magnified sounds, tiny gusts of wind pirouetting with dry leaves, the underlying smell of woodsmoke from the small fires on street corners—my old desire to settle in the mountains revives again. Varsha Tiwary writes of a similar disjunction between the …

BOOK REVIEW | Iconoclast by Anand Teltumbde Discusses Rescuing Ambedkar from Right-Wing Appropriation
4 months ago

BOOK REVIEW | Iconoclast by Anand Teltumbde Discusses Rescuing Ambedkar from Right-Wing Appropriation

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 27, 2024 08:49 IST - 8 MINS READ There have been quite a few biographies of B.R. Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar attempts to revisit and analyse Ambedkar’s life and ideas in the light of the rise of Hindutva and the failure of anti-caste struggles to counter both “Brahminism and capitalism”. Recalling Ambedkar’s stringent …

Ashok Gopal – “For 10 years, I read only Ambedkar”
1 year, 1 month ago

Ashok Gopal – “For 10 years, I read only Ambedkar”

Hindustan Times  

BR Ambedkar has left behind a vast body of work. The reader has to make a lot of effort to see connections between ideas expressed at different times, and if you don’t read Marathi, you will miss a substantial part of Ambedkar’s thoughts. Till I read Babasaheb, I didn’t have what he called a “philosophy of life” — like many …

67th Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Dr. Ambedkar observed in Kalaburagi
1 year, 3 months ago

67th Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Dr. Ambedkar observed in Kalaburagi

The Hindu  

“The philosophy of B.R. Ambedkar to provide equal educational and employment opportunities for downtrodden sections in society will remain a dream unless the nation focuses towards achieving his vision,” said Panditaradhya Shivacharya swami of Hosadurga. Paying floral tribute to the Ambedkar Statue on 67th Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Dr. Ambedkar here in Kalaburagi on Wednesday the religious head said that the …

Review of Syed Sayeed’s Understanding B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste: Missing the point
1 year, 7 months ago

Review of Syed Sayeed’s Understanding B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste: Missing the point

The Hindu  

Ambedkar Jayanti 2023 ushered in a slew of new books on Babasaheb Ambedkar on an unprecedented scale — seven volumes in as many months. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste, is distinct from all the others, in that it closely analyses only one single text, and does so — in the author’s own words — by wrenching “the text out of its …

Calling out injustice: review of Aakash Singh Rathore’s ‘Becoming Babasaheb’
1 year, 8 months ago

Calling out injustice: review of Aakash Singh Rathore’s ‘Becoming Babasaheb’

The Hindu  

A new biography of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is always a special event. Latest in the line of biographies of this exceptional and full life is Aakash Singh Rathore’s work, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Birth to Mahad. He notes insightfully that in the earlier years, Ambedkar’s affable personal manner had tempered the bluntness of his …

Academia Will Suffer a Great Loss if Ambedkar is Removed from DU's Discourse
1 year, 10 months ago

Academia Will Suffer a Great Loss if Ambedkar is Removed from DU's Discourse

The Quint  

His scholarship was truly wide ranging and rooted in interdisciplinarity, decades before the ascendance of the same as a dominant paradigm within academic circles. He was probably the first Indian to undertake a scientific approach to south Asian historiography grounding it in the cultural politics pertaining to the rise of caste as a social organising system. Building on the framework …

The Hindu on Books | Ambedkar biographies, Mughals in books, talking to Karan Thapar, Jeyamohan’s world view and more
1 year, 11 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Ambedkar biographies, Mughals in books, talking to Karan Thapar, Jeyamohan’s world view and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. I spoke about such gaps to a few friends, and they suggested I should write about it.” Aakash Singh Rathore’s biography of Ambedkar aims to bring readers closer to Ambedkar’s experiences and personality, “to his life and times.” Syed Sayeed, a retired professor of philosophy, has written a new book, …

Dr Ambedkar: A Nationalist and visionary wrongly appropriated by Left
4 years, 11 months ago

Dr Ambedkar: A Nationalist and visionary wrongly appropriated by Left

Op India  

Whenever life throws up challenges and puts our spirits down, our hearts and minds are on the lookout for an inspiration. Ambedkar says that Manu’s work ended with the “codification of existing caste rules and the preaching of Caste Dharma.” For all the hatred that is perpetrated against one community, especially in Tamil Nadu, the following quote from Ambedkar might …

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Our reading list
8 years, 11 months ago

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Our reading list

Live Mint  

This year marks the 125th birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and one of India’s greatest icons. Here’s our reading list on Dr. Ambedkar: In our edit on Ambedkar’s legacy, we wrote, “In terms of scholarly output among political leaders, he stands alone. That Ambedkarite project is about individual liberty, the end of …

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