Dalit Subbaiah uses animation to recreate its subject’s formative years. Born Karuppan Pichai in 1952, he was renamed Subbaiah by a teacher at his school to remove the stigma attached to his name. In ...
“She was an inspirational figure for me – that is also why I made the film,” he said. “Dalit activists have always been ...
Jai Jyoti, Jai Bhim, Laal Salam.” Every public speech by Gail Omvedt began with this chant. Her name may not have been part ...
Director of Gail & Bharat documentary Somnath Waghmare said even upper-caste scholars who have worked on Dalit literature are not called Dalit scholars, but Omvedt is addressed as an Ambedkarite ...