Santosh ambekar biography of mahatma

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ANNIHILATION OF CASTE is the nearly eighty-year-old text of a speech that was never delivered.* When I first read it I felt as though somebody had walked into a dim room and opened the windows. Reading Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar bridges the gap between what most Indians are schooled to believe in and the reality we experience every day of our lives.

My father was a Hindu, a Brahmo. I never met him until I was an adult. I grew up with my mother, in a Syrian Christian family in Ayemenem, a small village in communist-ruled Kerala. And yet all around me were the fissures and cracks of caste. Ayemenem had its own separate “Parayan” church where “Parayan” priests preached to an “untouchable” congregation. Caste was implied in peoples’ names, in the way people referred to each other, in the work they did, in the clothes they wore, in the marriages that were arranged, in the language we spoke. Even so, I never encountered the notion of caste in a single

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Nagpur: Billboards portraying Gandhi Bapu’s murder pulled down

In a shocking incident, billboards portraying the murder of Mahatma Gandhi were pulled down in Nagpur, says a statement issued by Hum Bharat Ke Log (HBKL), who has condemned this act, where, the group states, “even the public portrayal of the murder of Mahatma Gandhi is forbidden.”

This year, , marked the 77th anniversary of the commemoration of the Martyrdom of Gandhiji, who was murdered on January 30, , precisely at pm. In keeping with the national tradition, this platform, HBKL has endeavoured to involve citizens, peoples’ movements and political parties across the spectrum, to mark this day, as a day of national introspection. The aim is to recall the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi in the context of his values and teachings, even as we recall all the martyrs of our freedom movement.

Towards this end, the platform had, with local support, put up six hoardings in Nagpur city, where Hum Bharat Ke Log (Nagpur) and Gandhi

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Billboards portraying the murder of Mahatma Gandhi pulled down in Nagpur

In a shocking incident, billboards portraying the murder of Mahatma Gandhi were pulled down in Nagpur! We, Hum Bharat Ke Log, condemn this vile act, where now even the public portrayal of the murder of Mahatma Gandhi is forbidden.

This year marked the 77th anniversary of the commemoration of the Martyrdom of Gandhiji, who was murdered on the 30th of January , precisely at pm. In keeping with the national tradition, HBKL has endeavoured to involve citizens, peoples’ movements and political parties across the spectrum, to mark this day, as a day of national introspection, as we recall the Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, his values and teachings, even as we recall all the martyrs of our freedom movement.

In this context, we put up six hoarding in Nagpur city, where Hum Bharat Ke Log (Nagpur) and Gandhi Smarak Nidhi (Nagpur) were actively involved in the initiative. The billboards, based on a creative effort of a