Saumya Barmate

Burden of the enlightened: The Mahar community must take Ambedkarite Buddhism beyond itself

The Dhamma, as Ambedkar reinterpreted it, was a grammar of equality – a moral framework for reconstructing society. Its gods were not divine, but ethical: compassion, justice, fraternity. But in public life today, that language of ethics risks being drowned out by the louder, more performative religiosity of the Hindu Right

• Saumya Barmate
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