‘Dr BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’ Uses Bahujan Lens to Highlight Stories of Resistance

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Title: ‘Dr BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’ Uses Bahujan Lens to Highlight Stories of Resistance

Published on: December 25, 2023

Published in: The News Minute

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Dr. Ashna Singh

This is a review of Jyoti Nisha’s film, ‘Dr BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’. It argues that the documentary reverses the Brahminical gaze at multiple levels by standing firmly rooted in a Dalit-Bahujan standpoint, neatly portraying Ambedkar as a civilising force in a deeply casteist society.