Courage For a Better World.

Todd Vickers author of The Relevance of Kabir will speak on Ambedkar’s birthday about the hope of a better world, two paths to change. He will discuss the similarities and differences between Ambedkar and Kabir.

In every culture there exists its highest contribution to humanity and also social diseases in the form of poisonous beliefs. It is a rare person who can apply an antidote to poisonous beliefs in the face of cultural pressures. Kabir and Ambedkar are two such people. Both were born into the lower strata of society, both dared to challenge the existing order for the sake of a better world.

They were from dramatically different eras and their approach quite distinct, one analytic and the other intuitive, but they agreed in challenging the religious social order and they opposed some of the same beliefs.