One soul saw the other soul, both recognised a common identity," wrote Dr B.R. Ambedkar in a letter to Dr Sharada Kabir, his soon-to-be second wife, as they shared a common interest in Buddha's teaching. "This is how our hearts met," recalled Sharada Kabir-rechristened Savita after her marriage with Ambedkar-years later in her autobiography.
It was not an easy match. Savita said there were three issues they had to deal with in their marriage. First, she was a Saraswat Brahmin, while Ambedkar belonged to the most-deprived Mahar caste. Second, the 18-year age gap between them. Third, Ambedkar's many illnesses-diabetes, high blood pressure and joint pain.
"But neither our different social backgrounds, nor the difference in age nor again his ill health and his chronic illnesses came in the way of our marriage. The doctor in me was aroused to boundless sympathy, and I accepted Dr Ambedkar's proposal of marriage," Savita wrote in her autobiography, Dr Ambedkaraanchya Sahavaasaat (1990), which was translated into English and titled Babasaheb: My Life With Dr Ambedkar (2022).
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