- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor recently announced that he will come out with a biography of BR Ambedkar next month. The book, to be published by Aleph, will provide insights into the legendary leader’s life and times.
- The book will be named ‘Ambedkar: A Life’. The book will show the leader’s disputes with veteran politicians and freedom fighters, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.
- In “Ambedkar: A Life”, Tharoor will also seek to answer the question whether Ambedkar was the greatest Indian of modern times.
- The Congress MP traces the arc of Ambedkar’s life from his birth into a family of Mahars in the Bombay Presidency on April 14, 1891 to his death in Delhi on December 6, 1956.
Shashi Tharoor’s next book will be on Dr. Ambedkar ‘Ambedkar: A Life’
