> If you have heard of #MalalaYousafzai but not of #SurekhaBhotmange, then do read #Ambedkar...
> Surekha Bhotmange was forty years old and had committed several crimes too. She was a woman—an ‘Untouchable’, Dalit woman—who lived in India, and she wasn’t dirt poor. She was more educated than her husband, so she functioned as the head of her family. Dr Ambedkar was her hero.
--- #ArundhatiRoy in #TheDoctorAndTheSaint
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