“Never regard yourselves as untouchables. Live a clean life. Dress yourselves like the touchable ladies. Never mind if your dresses is full of patches, but see that it is clean. None can restrict your freedom in the choice of your garments and in the use of the metal for your ornaments. Attend more to the cultivation of the mind and the spirit of self-help. But do not feed in any case your spouse and sons if they are drunkards. Send your children to schools. Education is as necessary for females as it is for males. If you know how to read and write, there would be much progress. As you are, so your children will be. Mould their lives in virtuous way, for sons should be such as would make a mark in this world.”
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Dr. Ambedkar’s address to a gathering of Dalit women
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20th June in Dalit History – Guru Nanak Khalsa college, Mumbai, brainchild of Dr. Ambedkar was founded
20th June (1938) in Dalit History – Guru Nanak Khalsa college, Mumbai, brainchild of Dr. Ambedkar was founded
Guru Nanak Khalsa college was the brainchild of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who wanted to set up a centre or an institute in Bombay for higher education. In 1935 he put forth this proposal of establishing an educational institution for higher education in Bombay to the Sikh religious leaders at Amritsar. The Sikh leaders agreed upon this idea with their main objective of providing good quality of higher education and also to popularize Sikh culture in a non-Sikh State. Thus in 1937, G. N. Khalsa College was born in a plot where the college stands today, with the total area of 27, 642 sq. yards. (Wikipedia)
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What Nelson Mandela said about Dr. Ambedkar
“The Indian Constitution provides inspiration in preparation of a new South African Constitution. We hope that our efforts in formulation of a new constitution will reflect the work and ideas of this great son of India. Dr.Ambedkar’s contribution to social justice and to the upliftment of the oppressed is worthy of emulation.” – Dr. Nelson Mandela
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Interview with violin teacher of Babasaheb Ambedkar
Friends: While surfing on the net today I came across an item in the Marathi paper Maharashtra Times which may be of interest to you. This is an interview taken by Mr.Ramakant Jadhav of Mr. Balwant Sathe ( Bal Sathe) who taught violin to Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar. Sathe is 85 years old and still runs a school of violin teaching in Mumbai.
The following is a translation of the interview in an abridged form:
Q: Mr. Sathe, who recommended your name as violin teacher to Babasaheb?
A: In the year 1950 Mr.Rege, the librarian of Siddhartha College, introduced me to Babasaheb. In the beginning I and my elder brother both were reluctant to give lessons to such an elderly and scholarly man like Babasaheb. But after meeting him and experiencing the playful atmosphere he received us in we noticed the sense of humor of Babasaheb( and agreed.)
Q: When did you gave your first lesson to Babasaheb and how many years did he study?
A: When in 1950 he came to Mumbai from Delhi, for two or three months I and my elder brother Nana used to go to his residence and give him lessons, as per his convenient time. During his stay in Mumbai he learned violin for approximately two years. His health was not that great and his hands used to pain by the movement of the bow. “A little rest and then some lesson” was the mode of the musical practice.
Q: How was he finding time in the midst of the assembly of the visitors?
A:To tell you, we ourselves used feel guilty for holding him from the important visitors. These well-known people- party workers, people coming from different far off places- used to wait for the lessons to be over and once over they used to rush to him for discussions on topics ranging form court cases to appeals to party affairs.
Q: How did his violin lessons stop?
A: Babsaheb’s hands used to experience pain. He afterwards developed liking in painting and started learning it. Violin lessons then stopped. Babasaheb returned to Delhi. I afterwards heard that some Mukherjee was giving him lessons in violin in Delhi. I feel extremely lucky to have come in the company of such an epoch-making man, a scholar on the pretext of giving him lessons in violin. I consider meeting him as the greatest reward life has offered me.
( Taken and translated from ‘Maharashtra Times” dated 9th January 2001)
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Daily Words of Dr. Ambedkar for 21st June
I tell you, religion is for man and not man for religion. If you want to organise, consolidate and be successful in this world, change this religion. The religion that does not recognise you as a human being, or give you water to drink, or allow you to enter in temples is not worthy to be called a religion. The religion that forbids you to receive education and comes in the way of your material advancement is not worthy of the appellation ‘religion’. – Dr. Ambedkar
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Daily Words of Dr. Ambedkar for 20th June
A good man cannot be a master and a master cannot be a good man. – Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar
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Dr. Ambedkar Statue at York University, Canada
Dr. Ambedkar Statue at York University, Canada
In India, where Dr Ambedkar’s statues are vandalized every now and then, foreign countries such as Canada, UK, USA etc are installing Dr. Ambedkar’s statues for inspiration. Dr. Ambedkar inspires everyone around the world. Indians must learn to respect and get inspiration from Dr. Ambedkar and his teachings which have power to liberate masses from the pain.
Wish one day, India and Indians learn from Dr. Ambedkar and give him the due respect and space that the greatest Indian, Babasaheb, deserves.
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Dr. Ambedkar’s Statue vandalized in Phagwara, Punjab
A statue of Dr. B R Ambedkar was vandalized at village Palahi near in Phagwara district on Sunday. It is such a shameful act. Time and again Dalit heroes statues are vandalized but governments don’t do anything, what a shame! We must protest against such acts and raise our voice against crimes on Dalits. It was second incident in last 3 months of so in the area, what action government is taking? SAD-BJP led government in Punjab is anti-Dalit and has not done anything to improve the situation of Dalits in Punjab. We must get united and throw this government out of power and bring our own rule and then only we can fulfill the dream of Begumpura of Guru Ravidas also.
Stop Attacking Dalit Statues and Dalit Pride
Dalits look upon Dalit leaders, Dalit icons, and Dalit history everywhere. Dalit masses need a source of inspiration, someone among them with whom they can relate to. Dalits need icons among them, who had/have suffered or faced the same pain as today’s Dalits face. By relating themselves to those icons, Dalits of today can achieve higher goals. Dalits of today don’t need outsiders to inspire them: who knows a shit about Parshuram? Dalits don’t need someone with twelve arms, nine tails and six legs to inspire them. Dalits need someone real, someone who can be from Dalits only. Well dressed Dalits’ statues give people educational, political, and social ambitions. So by damaging Dalit icons’ statues, upper caste people are depriving Dalits of the source of inspiration and of pride. Don’t touch. And if anyone puts his dirty hands on Dalit pride, Dalits know better what to do!
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Caravan 