"BAWS is the secret of my energy" says Vanshree imitating an old TV commercial. A student at TISS, Mumbai, she bagged admission in University College, London!!
Please congratulate her Jai Bhim!
visit today to access Babasaheb's Writings and Speeches!
this melts our heart :) This is happening right now in NY on a "Dr Ambedkar Float" parading thru 5th and Park Avenue to celebrate true bahujan nayaks :)
Thanks 🙏🏽 Twitter Ambedkarite community and everyone in earlier tweet thread for helping. We now have a PDF copy of Volume 1 and 2 in Tamil. It all started with wanting to make a post about the book shown here :)
We are planning to hold a mass online reading of 22 vows on October 14th at 9PM IST from our website. Everyone will read
#22Vows
together. We will report the geostatistics live. Let's try to cover all India
just go to at the mentioned time.
#22AmbedkarVows
Besides being followers of Babasaheb's ideology we are also software engineers. we will also discuss technical problems we solve as we build this ambitious portal. Software Engineers who are Ambedkarites or vice versa, feel free to ask technical questions or give such advices.
Today's Quiz: When was the first time Schedule Caste students were sent by the Government of India on scholarship to England to get education ? How many students were there?
Bonus question: Who shutdown the program and when?
Happening right now, you all are separated by distance, but united by thoughts. Reading the mind of greatest humanitarian..
a snapshot of where all our readers are currently
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Jai Bhim and best wishes on Ashok Vijaydashmi!
Here's our future coverpage for Dr Ambedkar's Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India by very talented artist
@BhadargeRohini
please show some love!
We are going to release a new feature soon that will allow you to read a book more easily by allowing you to resume from where you left off(like Netflix, yes!)
It will only be available to a few users in the beginning. Please react to this message to get notified when ready!
Unlike casteist BG Tilak, his son was appalled by untouchability, inspired by Babasaheb and was one of his soldiers like his brother. Sadly his relatives and others drove him to death by suicide. Page from Dr BR Kamble's Samata translation. His last letter to Babasaheb.
Yesterday we shared the famous 22 vows in different languages from BAWS. The number of people who read these were
English: 463
Marathi: 101
Hindi: 45
Tamil: 34
"The Bania is the worst parasitic class known to history. In him the vice of money-making is unredeemed by culture or conscience. He is like an undertaker who prospers when there is an epidemic....
Breaking News: Library of Michigan State University, USA now officially sends users to for Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches!
Thank you Prof Jon Keune and
@CALMSU
and
@ambedkar_center
Jai Bhim!!
On Babasaheb's Mahaparinirvana Indian Express used a very cruel headline. He was even called so directly in Parliament which he resisted. But the Brahminical media won't respect his wishes even in death.
A big thank you to Dr
@scottrstroud
for writing this essay but also guiding us on search enhancements. Thanks to
@ambedkar_center
for this opportunity. And congratulations to all the volunteers who have invested their time, love and labour! Jai Bhim!
Some people are asking why we are trying to collect Babasaheb's vows in so many languages. Can't help it. We have readers from all over India
This is one month data
Are you a creative graphic artist/designer? Can you design and create eye catching book covers? We are looking for you to make book cover for Dr Ambedkar books like the one in our gallery. About 50 covers are needed. This is a paid opportunity. Send sample in DM.
Humble tribute to Prof Hari Narake. He left us too soon. His contributions to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches will never be forgotten. You may have seen this on all volumes
Thread.
Throughout his lifetime Dr Ambedkar was accused of not being a nationalist enough. This was based on his questioning of the Swaraj model pushed by Congress and other Brahminical parties. We are excited to release translation of Dr Ambedkar's journalism on this topic!...
Never thought we would be thanking such creatures twice within 24 hours, but now thanks to him we also got ~ 100 new followers and 200 extra site visits.
This thread will blow your mind. This is where a young Babasaheb explains how even radical groups who try to resist caste without understanding it properly, only end up becoming yet another caste.
"Any innovation that seriously antagonises the ethical, religious and social code
Did you know?: Babasaheb knew the Brahmins will attack his brilliant book "Who were Shudras" citing random excuses that his translations from Sanskrit are wrong. So he had that covered :)
don't miss the just-as-brilliant Preface to the book
Twitter happens to be responsible for thousands of hits per day. In comparison Facebook is not even 10% of it. A big thank you to Babasaheb lovers on Twitter!
This is the future cover page for Babasaheb's paper "Caste in India" on our website. Doesn't this beautiful artwork by Rohini Bhadarge
@BhadargeRohini
make you want to read the book?
Click here to read the book:
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The Creed of the Buddha
-by Dr. Ambedkar
1. Religion is necessary for a free Society.
2. Not every Religion is worth having.
3. Religion must relate to facts of life and not to theories and speculations about God, or Soul or Heaven or Earth.
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Tributes to Savitri Mai on her birthday. Her struggles to usher universal education has broken so many gender and caste prejudices and stereotypes!
Jai Bhim Jai Savitri!
(picture source )
Remember the post about 70% of GRE prep vocabulary being already in BAWS. It wasn't an exercise to show off. Our next release will allow you to look up the meaning of about 5000 words while reading . See full image
Babasaheb wondering why K. N. Katju chose to keep punishment light in Untouchability Offense Bill
"He said that the punishment ought to be very very light .. he was pleading for a lighter punishment because he himself wanted to commit these offences"
Are there any folks out there who may want to help our team make the right reading plans for Babasaheb's writings? Must include quizzes and other mechanisms to track progress also. This is a paid opportunity.
Read Babasaheb's writings
if you can't do that, help build platforms to facilitate reading them.
if you can't do that, promote platforms that do so.
if you can't do that help us find people who can do any of the above.
if you can't do that then why should we be friends?
Jai Bhim!
Thank you Pranjal Dhanvij
@PranjalDhanvij1
for building a 600+ entries database of Marathi volumes 18(1,2,3), 19 and 20 to make it possible for us to release the BAWS Marathi version!!
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‘If the Untouchables make no noise, the Hindu feels no shame for their condition and is quite indifferent as to their numbers. Whether they are thousands or millions of them, he does not care to bother....(cont)
This is the paper Babasaheb mentioned among many others to counter the Brahmins who wanted to disown Manusmriti after it was thorougly exposed. Thank you Nagbodhi brother!
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We know reading long hours is hard, also it is hard to read late nights without bothering other family members. So introducing "dark mode" reading and reintroducing an improved text to speech - the fullscreen mode stops your phone from sleeping on you
Fun fact time: BAWS English covers 70% of words contained in GRE vocabulary prep guides. Would you rather rote learn them or learn their usage in the most important philosophy and humanities corpus coming out of modern India?
See here:
Every Hindu has a caste—he is either a Brahmin or a Mahratta or a Kunby or a Kumbhar or a carpenter. There is no Hindu—that is the fundamental proposition—who has not a caste
Starting to roll out "Why Did Babasaheb Say" series. A new default quote everyday for readers to discuss as a community. It is your opportunity to read more around the popular quotes. Don't stop at the quotes, Read On!
The "What has Ambedkar done for Independence" gang is back. They are not new. They existed even in Babasaheb's time. Read the reply directly from the man himself
Dr Ambedkar's response to Kesari Reporter who asked why he advised his people to not carry dead animal and take a loss of Rs 500 per year.
in short: "Why don't YOU take it up and earn that money, I will give 500 more to your family if they take it up"
😆
Read what Babasaheb wrote about transformation of Varna into Caste by Brahmanism. Why Hindu apologist bring up Varna based system to downplay Caste in Hinduism by hiding this story of transformation.
He said many things more powerful and accurate than this statement. Best to verify before posting. If we go by how the sentence began, this is best search hit.
"I BELIEVE, MY PEOPLE WILL SACRIFICE EVERYTHING TO ESTABLISH BUDDHISM IN INDIA"
"The idea of Baba Saheb Ambedkar was to bring social harmony by introducing reservation for only ten years. However, it has continued past seven decades. Reservation should not continue for an indefinite period of time so as to become a vested interest": Justice Pardiwala
#EWS
Many of you address this bot account as 'sir'. While 'sirs' usually sound do like bots, we would like you to know we are a diverse team. We don't mind however you like to address bot accounts, but please don't form a mental picture of team as comprising of dude boys in your mind
Rajendra Pal Gautam case shows that the bigots were able to negatively sensationalise an event that has regularly occurred since 1956 because the media, academia and others ensured ignorance about its historical significance over years. Want to fight this "convenient ignorance"?
"It is astounding how the kings were befooled by the Brahmins to transfer village after village to crafty, lazy and indolent Brahmins. Indeed a large part of the wealth of the present day Brahmins lies in this swindle practised by wily Brahmins...."
"In fact, the teachings of Islam and Christianity do not create the sense of high and low. Then why do the followers of these two religions treat you as low ?
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In 1942, I had to face two questions. One was to serve as a High Court Judge and the other was to join the Government of India as a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council. Had I joined the High Court, I would have received Rs. 5,000 per mensem as pay
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On the 26th of Jan 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.
....those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy
From Dr Ambedkar's writings and speeches:
Everyone from the Labouring Classes should be acquainted with Rousseau’s Social contract, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical on the conditions of Labour and John Stuart Mill on Liberty,...
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"A large majority of Untouchables who have reached a capacity to think out their problem believe that one way to solve the problem of the Untouchables is for them to abandon Hinduism and be converted to some other religion"
Since a couple of you asked, we have sufficient funds for this year. We actually need users to exhaust the computing capacity we are paying for, so please help there. Let's hope there's more traffic in the future to allow us to take your help with fund too 😌
oh and..