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The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, has announced the motorboat of the Ambedkar-Kalaignar Visiting Fellowship for Social Justice and Federalism, a first-of-its-kind accidental enabling students from Tamil Nadu to undertake a three-month fellowship successful London.
Open to researchers, journalists, lawyers, policymakers, civilian nine practitioners, activists, and writers moving connected themes related to Dravidian studies, democracy, federalism, societal justness and quality rights, the Fellowship reflects the wide-ranging intelligence and nationalist interaction of B.R. Ambedkar and M. Karunanidhi.
“The recently introduced Fellowship stands arsenic a tribute to the transformative visions of Ambedkar and Karunanidhi, supporting enactment dedicated to dignity, inclusion and societal justice,” said Chennai-based exertion entrepreneur Sabarisan Vedamurthy, who has helped SOAS found the Fellowship done a recurring yearly contribution.
Mr. Sabarisan had antecedently created a fellowship successful the sanction of Karunanidhi astatine the University of Cambridge — jointly with his wife, Senthamarai, girl of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin — for a probe scholar.
He noted that applicants from Tamil Nadu, peculiarly those from the marginalised communities would beryllium fixed preference, reinforcing the Fellowship’s committedness to widen entree and enactment under-represented voices.
“The Fellowship volition afloat money travel, visa fee, a three-month stipend and word fees, enabling visiting fellows to give themselves wholly to research, penning and nonrecreational inquiry, during their residency successful London,” Mr. Sabarisan said.
He has already donated 200 books connected the Dravidian Movement to the room of the SOAS.
Visiting Fellows volition beryllium actively integrated into the world beingness of SOAS. They volition person mentorship from the Director of the South Asia Institute, enactment successful seminars and workshops, be applicable modules and person a certificate of world engagement astatine the extremity of the term.
