Topic: Ambedkar

In a Rajya Sabha speech during ongoing Winter Session, Shah had said the opposition referred to B.R. Ambedkar only because it was ‘fashionable’.

This comes after Amit Shah held a presser Wednesday evening and accused the Congress of being 'anti-Ambedkar and anti-Constitution'.

Responding to which the Congress leader says that he was trying to get inside Parliament when he was instead pushed & threatened by the protesting BJP MPs.

During the Constitution debate in Rajya Sabha, Shah had said it had become ‘fashion’ for the Congress to take Ambedkar’s name.

The story of small, independent publishers such as Navayana, Yoda Press, Panthers’ Paw and Zubaan is one of gritty individual vision—and a certain blossoming of English-speaking urban readership with an appetite for diverse voices.

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi won 2 seats while BSP drew a blank in UP & RPI(A) didn't get to contest even a single seat in Maharashtra. Analysts say VCK tying up with INDIA bloc helped.

The BJP needs Hindu unity for electoral benefit, that too in a caste-ridden religious society. That makes it go for reform, reconciliation, and samarasata.

In ‘The Foresighted Ambedkar’, Anurag Bhaskar focuses on Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919. It demonstrates why he’s called the Father of the Indian Constitution.

The streets were never ours. They were owned by dandiya/garba players, visarjan revellers, dahi-handi crowd, Holi groups—but on Ambedkar Jayanti every year the streets turned blue.

Political appropriation whitewashes the rich history and cultural complexities of anti-caste movements, manipulating them for vested agendas.