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Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Fight for Women’s Rights
Cartoon published in Shankar’s Weekly in December 1949. Dr Ambedkar holding the hand of a little girl named Hindu code bill and leading her towards the Parliament and a Brahmin holding an axe in ha…
Holi – A Festival To Commemorate Bahujan Burning
Holi – What is it and how did it originate?
It is well known that Holi forms one of the important festivals among the Hindus. It is supposed to be festival of Shudras, and is one of the three most…
How Much Dalits Suffered Because of Hindu Caste System
Here is a list of brutal casteist practices, many of which can still be seen in various parts of the country.
Source – Following excerpt is from “Manu and the Shudras” book by Dr Ambedkar, appeare…
What are the Prospects of Democracy in India? – By Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The subject assigned to me is, “What are the prospects of democracy in India?” Most Indians speak with great pride as though their country was already a democracy. The foreigners also, when they si…
2nd February in Dalit History – Death anniversary of Subedar Major Ramji Maloji Sakpal
2 February 1913: Death of Subedar Major Ramji Maloji Sakpal, father of Dr. Ambedkar.
Dr. Ambedkar’s ancestral village is Ambavade, five miles off Mandanged, a small town in the Ratnagiri district…
28th January in Dalit History – First Ever Infanticide Prohibition Home of India Was Started by Savitribai Phule
28 January 1853: First ever infanticide prohibition home of India was started by Savitribai Phule.
Due to the Brahminical Social Order, those were the days when women irrespective of their caste a…
A Reply to Swachcha Bharat – Clean the Caste Dirt in your Mind
Why do you expect only the Dalits to clean your street? Why do you force Untouchables to carry your carrion and filth? You caste people have the filth, the dirt in your mind, in your philosophy, in…
Savitribai Phule Poems
Savitribai Phule was the first Dalit women, in-fact first women whose poems got noticed in the British Empire. Savitribai Phule was the mother of modern poetry stressing the necessity of English an…
The American Experience of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Jagesh: The American Experience of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Very few of India’s leaders have been educated in America. In the British period, England and to a lesser extent France and Germany were the …
Stop Attacking Dalit Statues and Dalit Pride
If you want to destroy a society, destroy its history and the society will get destroyed automatically – Dr. Ambedkar.
On 26th July, a statue of Behan Mayawati was broken in Lucknow; a day later, …
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on Republic Day (26th January)
“On 26th January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality and in social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one va…
“I Have a Dream” for Dalits of India
There is no nation of Indians in the real sense of the world; it is yet to be created. In believing we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. How can people divided into thousand of cast…
1st January 1818 – The Battle of Bhima Koregaon
If we wish to be free, we must fight. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? I know not wh…
Manusmruti Dahan Din (25th December)
Author – Dr. K. Jamanadas
Today is Christmas, 25th of December. It is celebrated all over the Christian world as the birth of Jesus Christ. But for the whole world of Dalits, it is an important da…
Last Day in the Life of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar – What Dr Ambedkar Did
5 Dec 1956: On the morning of 5 December, Dr. Ambedkar woke up a little late. Nanak Chad Rattu, his assistant was there till then, and after Dr. Ambedkar’s waking up, he took permission from him an…