Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy: Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari

Chintan Chandrachud is an associate at a leading international law firm in London. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, international arbitration and tax litigation. He is the author of Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom and writes frequently for Indian newspapers, including The Indian Express and The Hindu.

Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute in London. Dr. Jaffrelot’s recent publications include, The Pakistan Paradox, Business and Politics in India, The Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India and Bhimrao Ambedkar, Ek Jivni.

Sukhadeo Thorat is an economist by training and has done research on rural poverty and agricultural growth and the economics of the caste system, amongst other subjects. He has served as the founding Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Thorat has been awarded Honorary D.Litt, D.Sc, D.S. (Doctor of Education) and LLD Degrees by 12 universities. He has published 19 books and around 100 research papers. In 2008, Thorat was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Mother Teresa International Award, the Babasaheb Ambedkar Ratna Award by the Delhi government for his dedication and extraordinary contributions on the works and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar and, most recently, the Dr. Ambedkar National Award for Social Understanding and Upliftment of Weaker Section.

Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant.

Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy:
Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar's vision has framed and sustained the very idea of Ind ia. His sweeping scholarship, his essential courage and humanity and his role in the making of the Indian Constitution have made him the most enduring icon of modern India. Ambedkar's life and philosophy combined fierce idealism and cerebral pragmatism. A century and quarter after his birth, as political interests of varied hues struggle to own and appropriate his legacy, a distinguished and diverse panel assesses his battle for equality and its aftermath.

THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.

The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

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