Oral History Interview With Rakesh Gupt
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed his journey from India to USA. He explains few incidences of caste discrimination he faces in India and reflections of same in USA. He emphases on role of women in shaping Ambedkarite community. Ambedkarite community he discusses about who al can be called as an Ambedkarite.
Oral History Interview With Mahesh Wasnik
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed his journey from India to USA via Japan. He explains the importance and relations of Ambedkarite community and Buddhism to annihilate caste. His suggests collaboration with other organization to eradicate all forms of discrimination.
Oral History Interview With Maya Kamble
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed her journey from India to USA. She also explained how she created space for herself in the Ambedkrite community in USA. She explains how she related the importance of paying back to the women from oppressed communities in India would benefit in annihilating caste.
Oral History Interview With Saswati Natta
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed her journey as second generation Ambedkarite in the USA. As a US citizen she narrates how she learnt about caste and Ambedkar. She also explains how her Ambedkarite identity got shaped. She narrates few incidences of caste discrimination in USA.
Oral History Interview with Venkat Maroju
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee provides anecdote about his journey of forming an Ambedkrite identity. He explains the role of Ambedkarite and other organization in the process of social justice and equity in USA. His discussion focuses of role of organizations in advocating the anti-caste movement in USA.
Oral History Interview with Amin Pirani
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed his father's migration from India to Uganda and the few memories of his early life in Uganda. He also discussed his life in Spartanburg, South Carolina where he moved to at a very young age when Asians were kicked out of Uganda.
Oral History Interview with Asha and Surendra Toprani
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewees are married and discussed their early lives in East Africa, their marriage, life in Uganda, their departure from Uganda as a result Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from the country. They also discussed their settlement and early life in South Carolina - kids, home and work.
Oral History Interview with Ronikali Merali
This interview was conducted as part of SAADA's ACFP 20/21. The interviewee discussed his early life in Uganda, his experience of finding out about and living through Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda, his efforts to find a new home and departing Uganda, and his early years of resettlement in Greenville, South Carolina.