Ambedkar Cartoon Debate: A Perspective A raging controversy has erupted over a 1949 cartoon of Ambedkar and Nehru in a NCERT political science textbook, leading to an uproar in Parliament, and an announcement by the HRD Minister that the… Continue Reading →
A Song that will be sung Anand Patwardhan’s paean to Dalits, that took 14 years to compose, probes even as it praises, says Saroj Giri in Tehelka Tragic remains People killed in the police firing in Ramabai Colony in 1997 THERE IS an entrenched tendency… Continue Reading →
Kuldip Nayar in Dailystar When an Australian editor posed a question to the Indian press on why it never had a dalit, the untouchable, at a top position in journalism, I felt embarrassed. I considered it an omission which should have… Continue Reading →
On Ambedkar’s birth anniversary remembering his prophetic words about protecting constitutional methods Ajit Ranade Posted On Saturday, April 14, 2012 ,Pune Mirror When Dr Bhimrao Ambedkarwarned against the real dangers to democracy, he was both prescient and propheticBhimrao Ambedkar, the… Continue Reading →
SHURA DARAPURI, in The Hindu On the eve of the moving of the Draft Constitution in 1949, Dr. Ambedkar expressed his insurmountable fear over the existing inequalities in Indian society. He observed: “On 26th Jan 1950 we are going to… Continue Reading →
By K. P. Sasi 28 February, 2012 Countercurrents.org I do not know whether we won the freedom of this subcontinent called India because of Gandhi or Ambedkar. While thousands of people worked selflessly for the freedom that you and I… Continue Reading →
Anand Patwardhans new documentary,14 years in the making,is on the continuing struggle of the Dalit community in Maharashtra Jyoti Punwani Garbage,slums,weather-beaten faces talking with pride and anger;above all full-throated songs recounting the life of Bhimrao Ambedkar and all the… Continue Reading →
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