TopicB. R. Ambedkar

Topic: B. R. Ambedkar

Ambedkar was latecomer in world of stamps where Nehru’s and Gandhi’s ‘could fill floors’

+TFP Nidhima Taneja - 8 June, 2022

An exhibition in New Delhi shows how India shed its anxiety over Ambedkar stamps from 1966 to 2016.

Why BJP is the rightful heir to the legacy of Ambedkar

Guru Prakash - 14 April, 2022

Ambedkar's views on China show that he was a visionary diplomat, much better than the self-declared internationalist — Nehru, who wanted him out.

Samajwadi Party to form outfit named after BR Ambedkar on occasion of birth anniversary

PTI - 10 April, 2021

Speaking to reporters at Samajwadi Party's headquarters Saturday, party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the 'Babasaheb Vahini' will have units at the national, state and district levels.

Why it’s so easy for Modi to appropriate Tagore — or anyone

Shivam Vij - 29 January, 2021

Our icons are just that, familiar visual images, because Indians don’t read.

Savita Ambedkar, a ‘social worker in her own right’ who kept BR Ambedkar’s legacy alive

Pia Krishnankutty - 27 January, 2021

Savita Ambedkar, the wife of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, was a close witness to his contributions in framing the Indian Constitution.

Lights, camera, caste – An Ambedkar photo made it to Bollywood after 38 yrs of independence

Ravi Shinde - 9 August, 2020

It took a J. Om Prakash film to acknowledge B.R. Ambedkar as being backdrop-worthy for Hindi films.

IFS officer Devyani Khobragade pens book on Ambedkar to ‘teach kids about Dalit struggles’

Revathi Krishnan - 14 March, 2020

The book focuses on B.R. Ambedkar's journey as a young child and how he comes to realise what it means to be identified as a member of the Dalit community.

Un-Indian, copied: 70 years on, Constitution is still attacked because we have failed it

Anurag Bhaskar - 10 February, 2020

Visva-Bharati University V-C Bidyut Chakrabarty's comments add to the list of fictitious claims against Constitution that Ambedkar had busted during its drafting.

Parsis in Baroda berated Ambedkar for his caste. But Naval Bhathena changed everything

Urvish Kothari - 6 December, 2019

B.R. Ambedkar met Naval Bhathena at US' Columbia University in 1913, where he was studying on a scholarship given by Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III.

On Constitution Day, holding the powerful to account is our foremost fundamental duty

Nitin Pai - 26 November, 2019

More than 10,000 citizens have been charged with sedition in Jharkhand for the act of ‘writing a part of the Constitution on stone’.

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Power, party, dignity, father’s legacy — what all Uddhav Thackeray is losing in Maharashtra

Seshadri Chari - 1 July, 2022

The BJP’s move to place Eknath Shinde in the CM’s chair eclipses political veteran Sharad Pawar as the kingmaker of Maharashtra. The party has paid NCP chief back in his own coin.