As I said, it has been over a month, but not even a passing mention of the book has come anywhere on the English-language press. Yet, the entire literary and academic clique of the country somehow missed all of it. The book’s release, in short, was phenomenal. If you moved among the social justice circles, secularist and the Left of the Indian social media, the build-up to the release was very hard to miss, something attested by the fact that on the day of the release the hashtag #HatredintheBelly was quite prominent. By the end of the first week of its release, it was a bestseller on Amazon and there was already a waiting list for booked copies. It is the work of a collective of 38 contributors, consisting of artists, poets, writers, activists, academics and anti-caste groups (like Round Table India, Savari, Dalit Camera, etc.), called the Ambedkar Age Collective. Ambedkar’s Writings’ was released by the Shared Mirror Publishing House. It has been over a month since the book ‘ Hatred in the Belly: Politics behind the Appropriation of Dr.
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