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@12432TrivendrumRajdhani it's sad how she says this but still uses her father and case of domestic abuse as a generalisation for her tilted views of the trans community. Saying as a fellow ex potter nerd.

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@Bepop Oh yes, nothing can justify or defend her stand she took on trans community. Ye father aur domestic abuse wala kya mamla hai? Sorry I am not aware about this link.

@12432TrivendrumRajdhani if you have time, or you can make time I insist you to watch this video essay, it's by a trans woman Natalie, and she is trying to put both sides.

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Villanelle,nerdfighter

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/

@12432TrivendrumRajdhani thank you for reminding of this speech and sending me on a very refreshing run down memory lane :') I watched it when in school and it was the first time I remember being so completely enthralled by a speech... it was very powerful. I immediately ran to the printer shop and got a printout, a big deal at the time, which is still around somewhere. Then I memorised my favourite parts of it and would quote them randomly.

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

There are far more profound parts of it. Those above seem fairly simple now, but to 12 year old me they were mindblowing.

I used to deeply admire her, for a long time as a kid. Her Twitter outbursts were painful for a lot of people I'm sure, because so many people admired her around the world. It's painful to see heroes fall. Wish she'd just stayed the magical Jo Rowling and remembered that first quote before going off.

It's a wonderful work nevertheless, the speech. Leaving the link to the text here.

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@whatonly I saw that too, and it was wonderful not denying that. But it specifically hurts when someone you thought is telling you to accept your inner Gyrffindor even while being in Syltherin, being accepting of everyone, and especially not discriminating people based of being pure blood.

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@Bepop absolutely. I lost respect for her and she deserved the backlash. It was unacceptable... lack of awareness and understanding may be forgivable, but such a lack of empathy and such arrogance really shouldn't be

Speaking of speeches, Prasar Bharati's YouTube channel has several original audio recordings from the Constituent Assembly!! As well as some others. It is a diamond mine.

For example,

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RfAd2021 .

Guys any new insider info on the revised calendar for 2021 ?

@whatonly Prasar Bharti is a treasure trove.

And Babasahab is someone I really look forward to. What erudite scholar of his time. Absolutely rational. A modernist in true sense. An internationalist of highest order. A gem of an orator, like just see how well he has articulated in this very video. Sometimes (typing with audacity) I intimate him speaking while I practice some chota mota role play in front of mirror :) Imagening myself occupying a podium, and speaking in that baritone English is okay no?

Suggest readings on him pls. Have read AoC.

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DrishtiPoint .

@12432TrivendrumRajdhani I had read annihilation of caste and related writings for my optional and was amazed at the depth and breadth of his take on it.

12432TrivendrumRajdhani,

@12432TrivendrumRajdhani indeed. I agree entirely. And hey, imitation has got to be the most natural form of admiration :)

I'm also a beginner though, have read only fragments and a few speeches (do read Grammar of Anarchy) - regretting all the time I wasted in college without reading Ambedkar. Maybe someone else can suggest.

12432TrivendrumRajdhani,

@whatonly How are you navigating the PB's YouTube channel? Any specific playlist you would like to recommend?

Also, is there any primer to the CAD debates? Like for example CA touched many tangents before finalising a particular article of the constitution. It would be really interesting to know alternative viewpoints on a particular statute which was discussed, but didn't became the part of the constitution. (Jaise Somnath Lehari's apprehensions about FR and it's being misused by a police state)

whatonly,

@DrishtiPoint AoC should be made mandatory reading in school colleges. Have read Pakistan Or Partition (70%), and that was also an eye opening book for me. Some chapters are so well written in that book.

Looking forward to suggestions, primer on Ambedkar. Ministry of Social Justice has compiled his writing in a complete collection spreading out in various volumes. But itna to nahi padh saqtey obviously.

@whatonly Will definitely look at GoA.

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12432TrivendrumRajdhanisaid
@whatonly How are you navigating the PB's YouTube channel? Any specific playlist you would like to recommend?

Also, is there any primer to the CAD debates? Like for example CA touched many tangents before finalising a particular article of the constitution. It would be really interesting to know alternative viewpoints on a particular statute which was discussed, but didn't became the part of the constitution. (Jaise Somnath Lehari's apprehensions about FR and it's being misused by a police state)

I am still getting through this CA playlist:

thebeginning,

I am still getting through this CA playlist:

Typing for the third time, lol

Links are not showing up but you can search for their constituent assembly playlist on youtube. I'm still getting through that. I also search for speeches by leaders. Haven't even begun to scratch the surface with the other non speech stuff.

There used to be this great site for the debates, constitutionofindia.net which is no longer online :( it had everything nicely organised, hope it comes back up soon. Other than that I've only watched Samvidhan.

12432TrivendrumRajdhani,

sanjiv026 .

@abhishekprinceiit511 can you share your experience about chemistry..

Piyadasi_Doe .

I would suggest people to read and re-read 'Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development' (available here:http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/txt_ambedkar_castes.html ), an amazing piece of scholarship by Babasaheb Ambedkar. A student of Goldenweiser and probably the first and only Indian to get trained in presence of Franz Boas at the Columbia University.

He was 25 at the time of the presentation of this paper.

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@12432TrivendrumRajdhani Read Waiting for a Visa. It is an autobiographical account by him, it's very short read at that. Most people know about Gandhiji's incident in South Africa by foreigners, but more people should know the discrimination Dr. Ambekdar faced in his own country.

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KratosOfPUBG .