NIF Prize-winner ‘A Part Apart’: A milestone on publisher Navayana’s 21-year journey with Ambedkar
‘Over four revisions, the scope of the book expanded: All along, charting Babasaheb’s intellectual evolution remained the focus,’ writes publisher S Anand.
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You lived up to your first name:
You were strong enough to uproot mighty banyan trees.
You raised weapons
Not as mercenaries do;
You raised them against injustice.
You performed God’s autopsy.
You cut off the nose of the folk-goddess whom the ignorant try to appease
Jai Bhim and Joy Bhim to all. Navayana is overjoyed that Ashok Gopal’s A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of BR Ambedkar has been awarded the New India Foundation’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2024. Till April 14, 2023, Ashok Gopal was un-Googleable. Today, if he is somewhat known, he owes it to his monumental work on Babasaheb Ambedkar. The NIF prize, to be given on December 14 at the Bangalore Literature Festival, earns him Rs 15 lakh. What did not make news was a major recognition that came his way when he was invited as one of the chief guests at a key function at Deekshabhoomi this year in Nagpur, to speak about Babasaheb’s understanding of sadhamma. A Part Apart will soon be out in Marathi and Tamil. A Hindi edition is also in the works. This award may open the doors to other language worlds.
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