Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 2:35
🇮🇳Revealing the True Ambedkar 📚Ft. Conversation with Akash Singh Rathore
It always feels special to talk about our heritage and culture and the stories that shaped the present India. If you are passionate about the history and the story behind the enriching phase, the great personalities who spend their lives for a better future, you cannot miss the upcoming swell. On 27 July evening, 07:00 p.m., we will be talking about the focus Becoming Babasaheb. The book is written by Akash Singh Rathore. Well, there are many intellectual biographies of Dr
Janvi Sharma
@Janvi._.sharma · 2:40
So my question to you is that how did you got to know about the true personality of Dr. Ambedkar? Your book is all about a personality or his traits that we people or the masses generally don't know. So what are the sources that you got to know about it? And am really looking forward for this insightful conversation and for this information that we'll be getting. Looking forward to it. Thank you so much
Hi, Janvi. Thank you for your question. Yeah, it's always challenging when a person, of course, has passed away almost seven decades ago to try to figure out their personality. But fortunately there are a few sources. And there are sources that earlier biographers either didn't have access to or that they didn't think important enough to consult because for the most part we have always talked about the objective achievements that Dr. Ambedkar made
Anshika Mishra
@anshikaaa.aa · 1:50
In regards to your book Becoming Baba Sahib Ambedkar, the few questions that I would love to know is what inspired you to write Becoming Baba Sahib Ambedkar and what message of Dr Baba Sahib Ambedkar's life you are keen to portraying to your readers? Also, his life was marked with immense challenges and struggles. How do you approach depicting these pivotal movements in the book to capture his journey accurately? Thank you
And do you feel that the social situation that you face, being marginalized, caste prejudice and similar issues is any worse now than it was a century ago for what Ambedkar himself faced at your age and at the idea, the prospects for his future. So what you can see is that in all of these cases, social marginalization, political lack of freedom, boarding on imperial totalitarianism and the uncertainty of prospects for the future, given that there was no capital money available for education
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 3:14
And once again welcome and we are pretty much excited to have some interesting and factful conversations around Dr. Baba Sahib, his life and he himself as a personality. Once again a very good evening
Not that I was particularly good at writing, and I remain still. Writing has never gotten easier. It always remains difficult. But I persisted and I started publishing. And over time, after one book, two books, three books, it became clear, even when I was new to the university, that I couldn't be just treated as kind of insignificant newbie and that my thoughts and opinions would matter in departmental meetings and things like that
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:06
Hello and good evening once again Mr. Akash. First of all, thank you so much for sharing the behind the scenes and taking us back to the years wherein you started your career and you started writing. It is so good to know about how you started and what made you write books and what made you get into the writing industry and yes, rightly did you mentioned know at a point of time writing does becomes a necessity. So yes, I'm super excited to know much deeper aspects about your book
All of the circumstances that led to him following precisely that trajectory, the choices that he made, the way he was compelled or drawn to do certain things by the circumstances and constraints that he faced. And it's really a way of bringing out not only the personality and character through the choices and decisions that he made, but also the life circumstances that we all face that pull us in different directions. This is what the book is about, revealing his personality, but also his interesting life story
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:40
So, moving to the next question, what I would like to ask is as your book aims to shed light on Dr. Babasaheb's personal growth and transformation of his life, can you share any one incident or a pivotal moment? Or any period in his life during your research that you found that had a profound impact on shaping the man as a personality that he became or as a personality that we see him as? Dr babasaib ambedkar. It
But interestingly, it turns out to be pivotal for all of us because we always represent him in that way, and yet no one really knew why that is. So the biography uncovered that circumstance, that kind of event that happened in his life and so many other similar details that were important both to him and his development and, of course, to us and how we see this man
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:06
Babasam Bambedkar, it also gives us, especially the youths of the country, the youngsters who are actually pursuing going to colleges, a proper sense of dressing and how important it is to represent yourself in the best way possible. So this was such an interesting fact to know. So, moving forward, Becoming Baba Sahib uses extensive archival research to set the historical records. Could you elaborate on any myths or inaccuracies about Dr
Now, what I've done in my biography is to publish both pages of the letter. I was fortunate to find again, in searching through the archives, I was fortunate to find this original letter, and I've published the second page so that we can correct the record about their lack of a relationship and consequently, their lack of any ideological compatibility
Prabha Iyer
@PSPV · 3:20
And these people were not allowed to touch the water vessels and they had to actually bring gunny bag sack kind of to sit and they had to take it back also. And actually this Pune in a school belonged to the higher caste and very pathetic that when I read that he used to do the daily duty. And upon his absence, amitkar Sir never used to get to drink water because nobody used to help pouring it
Hi, Prabha. Thank you very much for your comments. I really appreciate hearing what it is that you have to say. Any author gets very touched when someone recognizes acknowledges their work. Also, I had actually forgotten this expression from Ambedkar's autobiographical fragment waiting for a Visa that you raised no pune, no water. I think it's a very powerful phrase, and thank you for reminding me of it
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 2:04
But I think we readers are fortunate enough to also have personalities like you who come up with the true facts or the truth behind that actual content or the particular incident that has taken place. So since this was a bit actually, I would say shocking and something new that I have personally heard that this was the incident that happened. So pretty sure the book will be uncovering many such true incidents and the hidden facts. So, moving to the next question, the biography of Dr
And while one has to be very careful with those because many of the newspapers had interests of their own in misrepresenting him or vilifying him, still, we get the possibility of confirming where he was at what time on what day and then using those details to corroborate with, for example, the letters I was referring to earlier or the kinds of speeches that he would give to his own communities
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:06
And what do you hope that readers will take away from this fresh perspective on Dr. Ambedkar's life and personally, as a biographer and writing focus? Becoming Babasaheb what? Do you want readers to understand on the very base level or the grassroots level and take away that particular lesson with them once they complete reading your book and they understand the fresh perspective and a different approach that you have given to your immaculate work?
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:41
Since you have written eight books, what is that one piece of advice that you would like to give to the beginners out there who are planning to write or planning to start writing and make a career in writing, or the youngsters who are looking forward to establish themselves as writers or authors, or take a step into the writing industry any advice or any basics that they can consider while starting out their journey and while writing, so that it can be helpful to them in their lives and taking a step ahead in their literary journey
Because you're going to face a lot of obstacles in writing. There's not just the craft of writing, the technique, the cultivation of your own style, your own voice, even the mastery of certain syntax, vocabulary, all of these aspects. There's also, once you get a text written, the difficulty you find in publishing, the resistance to new writers. The old writers always get to have their say, but the new writers have to wait for a lucky break and so on