Community activist Sujata Sawant’s work in a Mumbai slum embodies both Gandhi and Ambedkar
In another life, Sujata Sawant, 49, was an accountant with a salary and Sundays off. She plunged into politics in 2014 during the Legislative Assembly election in Maharashtra as a worker of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), drawn in through an informally adopted brother. She began working part-time in Mumbai’s Kurla constituency, and that’s when…