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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicBR Ambedkar

Topic: BR Ambedkar

Khattar’s ‘Mahapurush’ U-turn after Congress kicks up storm over his remark on Ambedkar & Constitution

Congress claims Union minister questioned Ambedkar's role in making of Constitution & remarks show 'mindset' of BJP. Khattar made the remarks after meeting widow of IPS Y Puran Kumar.

Congress must show statesmanship, make concessions to the prejudices of Muslim League: Ambedkar

On 17 December 1946, BR Ambedkar addressed the Muslim League's absence from the Constituent Assembly, urging the Congress to show statesmanship and avoid Hindu-Muslim conflict through conciliation.

Who was Ramabai Ambedkar behind the songs & statues? She suffered, sacrificed, snapped back

Ramabai’s early death on 27 May 1935 stoked the mythology around her. To many Dalits, she is Ramai but to Ambedkar, she was Ramu— ‘What if you had not found these orders of poverty sweet?’

Half face Ambedkar, half face Akhilesh: BJP, BSP slam SP poster for ‘hurting Dalit sentiments’

Samajwadi Party Lohia Vahini functionaries put up the poster at the party HQ and later gave Akhilesh Yadav a framed photo of the same.

Jogendranath Mandal could’ve been Bengal’s Ambedkar. Backing Jinnah made him history’s footnote

One lapse in judgement cost Mandal not just his political career, but his place in history.

PM Modi pays tribute to Ambedkar, hopes to realise his dream of social justice

In a post on 'X', PM Modi asserted that Ambedkar's principles and ideals would strengthen and accelerate the creation of a self-reliant and developed India.

Ambedkar made human rights Indian ideals in fight against caste—before they became global slogans

BR Ambedkar not only indigenised the concept of human rights but also reinstated human values in a society long dehumanised by the Varna system.

Sikhs for Justice has a new target in Punjab: Ambedkar statues, and through them caste fault lines

SFJ chief Pannun claimed responsibility for vandalism and labelled Ambedkar ‘a devil’. FIR has been registered against unidentified miscreants over latest incident from Phillaur.

Truth is clear—Sangh Parivar is in perpetual conflict with Ambedkar’s radical modernism

Reciting Ambedkar’s name in a sing-song manner, Shah was ridiculing the father of the Constitution. His tone was sneering, like a send-up of Ambedkarite activists.

Congress & BJP rejected Ambedkar once, idolise him now. He never wanted blind worship

Amid the ongoing ideological slugfest, I strongly recommend reading Ambedkar in his own words. For his acolytes, it is important to remember Ambedkar’s advice on independent thinking.

On Camera

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

Nitish Kumar has mastered the rhythm of renewal in Bihar. In a democracy of churn and chance, endurance may be the rarest—and most refined—form of political art.

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.