This is sure a sign of restlessness in the RSS led BJP government. Anand Teltumbde, Varavara Rao, Hany Babu, Umar Khalid, and other political prisoners are lodged in gaol. From resorting to elaborate schemes of wild conspiracies and planted evidence, Prof. “bullock” I argue in this edition of Dalitality.
Moreover, the session court judge Aparesh Chakravarty in Barpeta, Assam reprimanded the state machinery for abusing the process of court and law.īJP was once again put on the backfoot by the court. I continue to receive heart warming invites from around the world to address the gathering on April 14th.Īs I write this, I am delighted to share the news that India’s firebrand leader Jignesh Mevani has received bail on both of the farcical charges that were brought upon him last month. This experience is shared across the board by many public figures.
He had to remind me that it is April and it would be difficult for him to commit to anything else. I recall a few years ago when I was trying to set up an event with Anand Teltumbde in the month of April. Ambedkar as Equality Day.Īpril is a busy month for Bahujan activists, artists, scholars, and leaders. Stalin, the Chief minister of Tamil Nadu also declared the birthday of the revolutionary Dr. Later this was paralleled at home when M. This is not limited to the Dalits living in India but has now started to spread in the western world.Īs was reported in the last newsletter, the British Columbia government of Canada marked 14th April as the Dr. What a revolution it is indeed that a community that was meant to not remember its glorious past and resign to the fate of the karmic caste system, reclaimed themselves, gathering in one piece and launching a fiesta. Thus, Ambedkar Jayanti becomes an occasion for the community to write its new story from hereon. All over India, Ambedkar’s followers, mostly Dalits, would commemorate the day of their hero.Īfter all, for a community that surreptitiously tries to evade all the attacks and visual denigration, they need a time to fully reclaim themselves. This celebration of “Ambedkar Jayanti” began during Ambedkar’s life. We probably do not celebrate our own birthdays as much as the birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar. This month and April 14th in particular, is the biggest day in our lives. No matter what we are going through, April brings the joy of remembering and relishing the legacy of our most celebrated heroes-Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Dr.
T.S Eliot wrote somewhere, April is the cruelest month, but for Dalits all over the world, this could not be more wrong.
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