Aaidan ( The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs) Īaidan her autobiography written in Marathi has been translated into English and titled as The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs. She has also noted that her father neither participated in the Mahad Satyagraha organised by Ambedkar nor inter-dining arranged by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, although her elder sister, Shantiakka, often missed school to attend the inter-dining lured by sweet delicacies served there. Her father was a teacher in a school for untouchable children. She has described how her community lived in the centre of the village, unlike Dalit communities elsewhere in the Presidency that were usually expected to live at the periphery. Ambedkar called for people from the Dalit community to renounce Hinduism. When she was 12 years old, she and her family converted to Buddhism along with other members of their community after B. Pawar was born in 1945 in Adgaon village of Ratnagiri district in the Konkan district of Bombay Presidency (now the state of Maharashtra). Wandana Sonalkar has written the foreword for the book.Ĭareer Early life and education The book was later translated into English by Maya Pandit and released under the title The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs. Pawar's autobiography Aidan ( Weave), which was one of the first of its kind account by a dalit woman, won her acclaim and numerous accolades. Her documentation with Meenakshi Moon on the participation of dalit women was a major contribution to the construction of dalit history from a feminist perspective in India. Pawar's short stories including 'Kavach' and 'A Childhood Tale' are widely read and form the part of the curriculum at various Indian universities. Urmila Pawar is an Indian writer and activist in the dalit and feminist movements in India and her works, all of which are written in Marathi language, have often been hailed as a critique of social discrimination and the savarna exploitation by commentators and media outlets.

The weave of my life by urmila pawar