on ramai_🌿

like babytai kamble says in her book the prison we broke, "morality and compassion are two of the most prominent virtues that babasaheb taught us as the foundation of any character." now at this point in time, who could be the best person to see these virtues in. for me, it is ramai! 

nevertheless, it is very difficult to put ramai in a theoretical frame. because for that, one needs to be a woman, who leads a self-respectful life, no matter how terrible her socio-economic situation is. a mother, who has seen enormous pain of losing her children out of mere health and hunger. a campanion, who has shared all the personal and social responsibilities with her husband, even greater than equal manner. there have to be more facets of her life; but unfortunately are yet to be known.

in her own ontological persona, she asserts to be the person having patience, loving-ness, belonging-ness on the contrary to the ontological realities that were present in her surrounding. having all the oppressive elements around such as everyday survival challenges, patriarchy, castes discrimination, economic disparity, lack of resources to avail education and health services etc. 

it is a matter of amaze, how could a person be so compassionate in her ontological being even though there are such loaded hindrances around. and that's where buddha's 'karuna' (compassion) while satipatana (meditation towards non-duality) can be seen in this picture. one needs to understand the hindrances around and confront them to realise their own ontological being-ness!

📑mrs. ramai ambedkar 🌱
🖋 @dnyanesh_____
🌱 read this piece on blogspot, link is in the bio.

mrs. ramai ambedkar

annihilation of caste: more than a speech_🌿

i have always been fascinated by this book "annihilation of caste" of dr babasaheb ambedkar. Not only because it is an academic masterpiece or a reference to the core of so many socio-political movements but it is also one of the most sold, debated, interpreted book than any other academic book.

though at the outset, it is written in the manner of a public speech, as said in the title as "speech prepared but undelivered" or even if any reader knows the context of publishing this speech into a book, may understand that it is a speech. 

what i see in this book is that it is a balance of academic sophistication, normative reasoning and simplicity of writing, so that it can be understood by all, the activists, academicians as well as the common masses.

this is a list of sources from which one could holistically visit this book with almost all contemporary debates that are happening. Annihilation of Castes: Text, Context and Theory (List of Sources) 

 📑 annihilation of caste
🖋 @dnyanesh_____

 

annihilation of castes, the first edition

 

 

more readings and audios of babasaheb's writing

(it is a separate site called "reading babasaheb" where both pdf and audios of babasaheb has attached. if one-click on the topic the audios of each topic will open in soundtrack app and by clicking on the main topic of the volume, the pdf will open)

• DBAWS Volume 1
• DBAWS Volume 2
• DBAWS Volume 3
• DBAWS Volume 4