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In recent weeks, there’s been a renewed political pushback against the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble to the ...
Today, it is Rahul Gandhi alone who is fighting for social justice, says Rajendra Pal Gautam, who was a minister in the AAP ...
I wasn’t yet three. She knew that she was jeopardizing her marriage. She knew that she was crossing a line my dad considered ...
More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...
He wanted so-called lower caste Indians to dress in sprightly western wear too. Like the Mahatma's dhoti, Ambedkar's suit was a political statement against India's clothing hierarchy.
Dalit History Month: On 134th Ambedkar Jayanti, April 14, MUBI released two documentaries, by Jyoti Nisha & Somnath Waghmare. Bahujan Spectatorship theorist Jyoti Nisha talks about her film ‘Dr ...
Ambedkar Jayanti 2025: The Delhi government will organise a 15-day event in schools as part of celebration on the occasion of 135th birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, CM Rekha Gupta announced.
The CM said that all government schools in the city will incorporate lessons from Dr Ambedkar’s life into the curriculum and students will offer floral tributes to him during school assemblies.
The last rites of Dr Ambedkar, who died at his home in Delhi on December 6, 1956, were performed according to Buddhist traditions.
"First they (apparently pointing towards the Congress) made Babasaheb Ambedkar lose the elections. After his 'mahaparinirvaan', they did not allow his last rites to be performed in Delhi.
Born into systemic exclusion, BR Ambedkar rose to draft India’s Constitution and fight for equality, dignity, and justice. On Ambedkar Jayanti, we remember not just the Father of the Constitution, but ...