Ambedkar - A Life: Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Tripurdaman Singh

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is indisputably one of the greatest figures of modern Indian history. Politician and writer Shashi Tharoor's recent biography, Ambedkar: A Life (published in the UK as B. R. Ambedkar: The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed), traces the arc of his life while analysing the multiple battles he fought in both political and intellectual spheres. In conversation with author and academic Tripurdaman Singh, Tharoor discusses Babasaheb's life and journey along with his determination to present India with a Constitution ingrained with individual rights and modern concepts of social justice. Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-four books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non-Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He chairs Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers and has previously chaired the Standing Committee on External Affairs and the Committee on Information Technology. Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He is the author of Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics, Sixteen Stormy Days, and most recently, Nehru. Follow us on – Website - https://jlflitfest.org/ Facebook -   / jlfinternational   YouTube -    / @jlfinternational   Instagram -   / jlfinternational   Twitter -   / jlflitfest   Contribution - https://www.twagateway.com/twasupport/ #shashitharoor #ambedkar #drambedkar #jaipurliteraturefestival