Ambedkar for our time

April 14, 2015 11:35

CPI leader D Raja's column on Ambedkar: Today the nation celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. In spite of being one of the worst victims of untouchability and having been denied basic human rights, Ambedkar rose as a colossus -- a jurist, a Constitution-maker and, above all, a defender of the unity of India. In the words of the late President K.R. Narayanan, he was a "compassionate rebel'.

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