The movie Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is now available on the Bollywood
site www.zinemaya.com for download or rental. It tells the story of
Babasaheb Ambedkar, who opposed the Vedic caste system and it's rules
of "untouchability". The movie is in English.
A must see for those appalled by Vedic supremacism and it's
institutionalized use of slavery, sacrifice, sexism and patriarachal
domination.
Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar is one of the finest historical film made in
Independent India. This movie takes place between the years 1901 to
1956, a period of great social upheavals and revolutionary movements
around the world. In India during this time, there were two struggles
being fought simultaneously; the first, which is well known throughout
the world, was India's fight for independence spearheaded by Mahatma
Gandhi, against the British colonial powers. The second struggle, much
less well known but no less important was an internal struggle.
Seventy million Indian untouchables, led by Dr. Ambedkar were fighting
for their rights against upper caste Hindu society. This film holds
its significance due to the fact that, though the ethos contained is
Indian, it has its equation in the political and social disparity all
over the world. The basic aim of the social revolution is to uphold
the meaning of humanity in its truest sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar
"India is perhaps the only country where a section of society is
considered inherently so low and inferior that their mere touch
pollutes others. Consequently they are forced to live outside the
villages. Caste has become like a water-tight compartment from which
neither anybody is able to escape nor enters into it. One is born into
a particular caste; he/she will die in it. There is no way the castes
could be exchanged. One born as an Untouchable will die as an
Untouchable. It doesn’t matter how much wealth or status one has
acquired in life, he/she will be looked down upon with contempt.
Because of the religious sanction behind it, Hindus are following the
tenets of caste, a graded inequality as a matter of their religious
duty. For thousands of years, the notion of high and low, inferior and
superior has been ingrained into their psyche. But Dr. Sharma has
ascribed the ill-effects of caste discrimination to the British Raj
and the various invasions and foreign rules in India, forgetting that
the origin of Caste lies in the Hindu scriptures like Rig Veda, Gita,
Ramayana and Manusmriti, which pre-date all foreign rules." - Baba
Ambedkar
