Navayana Dalit History Fellowship 2021–Meet the 8 Fellows
Published at : November 07, 2021
In its eighteenth year, we feel Navayana has truly come of age.
This has much to do with the Navayana Dalit History Fellowship which we launched this year, a project which has been a long time coming. For too long, we have mulled about our history of errors and missteps. In the end, the going was exceedingly fulfilling, though laborious, considering the quality of ideas we received from the seventy-odd applicants for the nDHF. The eight fellows who were eventually selected—Ankit Kawade, Arul Muthu Kumaran, Babasaheb Kambale, Chandrabhan P Yadav, Ishita Roy, Mahitosh Mandal, Meera Jatav and Murugan V.—signal much hope. They spoke in an online event on 14 October, the day of rebirth, of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s conversion when over half a million people participated in a bloodless battle for “the reclamation of their human personality”. Here is a peek into what the eight fellows had to say:
To know about the fellowship and their work, see https://navayana.org/blog/2021/10/13/when-these-tongues-speak-listen/?v=c86ee0d9d7ed
This has much to do with the Navayana Dalit History Fellowship which we launched this year, a project which has been a long time coming. For too long, we have mulled about our history of errors and missteps. In the end, the going was exceedingly fulfilling, though laborious, considering the quality of ideas we received from the seventy-odd applicants for the nDHF. The eight fellows who were eventually selected—Ankit Kawade, Arul Muthu Kumaran, Babasaheb Kambale, Chandrabhan P Yadav, Ishita Roy, Mahitosh Mandal, Meera Jatav and Murugan V.—signal much hope. They spoke in an online event on 14 October, the day of rebirth, of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s conversion when over half a million people participated in a bloodless battle for “the reclamation of their human personality”. Here is a peek into what the eight fellows had to say:
To know about the fellowship and their work, see https://navayana.org/blog/2021/10/13/when-these-tongues-speak-listen/?v=c86ee0d9d7ed
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