Ambedkar founded Mook Nayak to voice Untouchable grievances.
Evidence
Around this time, Ambedkar started his first journal, Mook Nayak (Leader of the Voiceless). Tilakās newspaper, Kesari, refused to carry even a paid advertisement announcing the publication of Mook Nayak. The editor of Mook Nayak was P.N. Bhatkar, the first Mahar to matriculate and go to college. Ambedkar wrote the first thirteen editorials himself. In the first one, he described Hindu society in a chilling metaphorāas a multi-storeyed tower with no staircase and no entrance. Everybody had to die in the storey they were born in. ā Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotatedā¦, 316
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The āmulti-storeyed tower with no staircaseā metaphor is a strong image of caste rigidity worth preserving.