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India cannot be transformed without understanding Ambedkar: Sosale

India cannot be transformed without understanding Ambedkar: Sosale

Mangaluru: Reading Dr B R Ambedkar is important to understand true India and Indianness or else India will remain an impractical, traditional country with a lack of intellectual knowledge, opined N Chinnaswamy Sosale, history professor at Hampi Kannada University .Addressing the gathering after inaugurating the 132nd birth anniversary celebration of ‘Bharat Ratna’ Dr B R […]

Towards a new affirmative pact

Towards a new affirmative pact

In his last speech before the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, BR Ambedkar sounded a warning to the incoming lawmakers of a still infant Republic. He reminded them that the topsoil of democracy in India rested on a bed of deep inequity and, therefore, political democracy would never be enough in the absence of […]