Gouri Patwardhan

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A tribute to my teachers

by rti_adminon April 21, 2016March 20, 20231

Essay 5. ‘What Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me’ Gouri Patwardhan My first encounter with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar outside the school textbook was at the age of 31. I was working as an interpreter cum research assistant with a German documentary filmmaker on a film on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1997. That was the first …

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We want to break the caste system through literature: Anita Bharti

by rti_adminon February 15, 2014March 20, 20230

Anita Bharti is a prominent poet, writer and an activist for Dalit and women’s rights since her student days. She has been in the forefront in bringing in the Dalit women’s perspective into Hindi literature. Her most recent contribution to Hindi literature was to edit and publish a pioneering collection of poetry by 65 …