#Dr ambethkar malayalam novels series#

#Dr ambethkar malayalam novels series#

You are conducting a series of live conversations titled: ‘Postulates for a Less Opaque World’. These are things that are part of the popular consciousness. You can buy Annihilation of Caste in any major language for `5 or `10, which is impossible for other books so there is a culture of reading and disseminating ideas. If we talk about reading practices, the Ambedkarite community has a very strong reading habit. The way Hindu elders sit at the adda and discuss things, the same way, people from the Ambedkarite and Dalit community have these discussions constantly.

I do but these are very well known for anyone who belongs to the Dalit community because these have been conserved. You quote (in captions as seen in his works) a lot of instances from BR Ambedkar’s life in your work. There is a lot of personal history and broader collective Dalit history, how our icons and people’s interaction with these icons is enmeshed in the idea of what dignity is, what freedom is, and what is true liberation. I try to provide a more nuanced, complex, holistic thought of ideas through my art. People from marginalised communities are not to be thought of when a horrible atrocity has happened. I try to resist the reactive element of it. There is no uneventful ground on the basis of which the idea of Dalit person exists. When you think of news articles about the Dalit community, they tend to be reactive, about some incident or some horrible atrocity that has happened. It is not a reaction per se because a lot of times, art that comes about the community has a reactive history. Would you say your work is a personal response or a bigger reaction to the issue of caste discrimination? I recognised that something was missing, and I thought the obvious I can employ these artistic interests of mine was to take the blue and white colour scheme of the Ambedkarite flag. My background in filmmaking has always been conceptual and focused on abstract, minimal aesthetic. I also felt there was this need to expand my art within the discourse of Ambedkarite art. My political stance was sharpened during that atmosphere. There is a particular movement, especially surrounding the death of Rohith Vemula that forced a lot of people from my community to look at how structurally questions of caste oppression, systemic violence, and discrimination are so thoroughly operative. In the Noise Reduction films, there was this sort of unfocused political stance that I was trying to take. Tell us about your art project ‘Artedkar’ (2020). In this interview, Punyshloka talks about his art, his journey as an artist, and more. Punyshloka’s art project, ‘Artedkar’, is a keen attempt at using minimal aesthetics to create illustrations that send across a strong message on the issue of caste discrimination.