We are first-generation scholars and development professionals working across sectors and life stages. We are building a culture of reading and a community of exchange, a space where knowledge is not gatekept, lived experience is a legitimate starting point, and Bahujan thinkers are taken seriously. We want to engage deeply with Phule, Ambedkar, Periyar, Savitribai, and the traditions they inspired, not as historical curiosities but as guides to our everyday politics, our work, and our understanding of power. The organisers have spent five years running a reading community within Azim Premji University, where this practice took root and grew. That space is now known as the Savitri Ambedkar Cultural Forum.