Bahujan Samaj Party leaders and workers on Tuesday organised statewide demonstrations in Uttar Pradesh in protest against Union home minister Amit Shah’s recent remarks on Dr BR Ambedkar. Lauding the party workers for organising demonstrations in a series of posts on X, Mayawati said, “I express deep gratitude and thanks to all office bearers, workers of BSP and all the …
Contrary to some assumptions, I discovered during my school days itself, that caste discrimination is pervasive even among Sikhs, despite the fact that our Gurus strongly preached against it. I was visiting my uncle who owned farmland nearby, and was with my older cousin who was operating a tube well to water their paddy fields. Next, as if the two …
Ambedkar Jayanti 2023 ushered in a slew of new books on Babasaheb Ambedkar on an unprecedented scale — seven volumes in as many months. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste, is distinct from all the others, in that it closely analyses only one single text, and does so — in the author’s own words — by wrenching “the text out of its …
DR BR AMBEDKAR DEATH ANNIVERSARY: Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar is often referred to as the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born on April 14, 1891, in present-day Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow, Dr Ambedkar aggressively opposed the caste system and advocated for the rights of the Dalits and the marginalised. Dr Ambedkar was a jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who …
14 October 2021 marks the 65th anniversary of the day when the chief architect of India’s Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar undertook one of the biggest decisions of his life-giving up Hinduism and embracing Buddhism. It is a travesty of history then that BR Ambedkar, whose mortifying critiques of the caste system is routinely cited by ‘liberals’ to scorn and deride …
