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The violence in Saharanpur is a result of the BJP’s strategy to polarize voters with respect to Muslims. That’s their way of appeasing Jats unhappy with the treatment of their brethren in BJP-ruled next-door Haryana and of sowing discontent among Dalits aligned with Muslims 

In 1991, when the country was celebrating the birth centenary of B.R. Ambedkar, Anil Sarkar began serious efforts to launch a Dalit movement in the state. He gave a new perspective to Marxism in the Northeast by aligning it with the Dalit movement

On 4 June 2016, the Ambedkarite and other Bahujan organizations of Greater Toronto Area joined hands to have a grand celebration of the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar

At a Hasya Kavi Sammelan held on Ambedkar Jayanti, a pandit makes the participating poets wear the “sacred thread” to symbolize social equality

The Maharashtra has announced that it would purchase the 2,050-square foot London house where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar stayed from 1921-22 while he was enrolled at the London School of Economics for his PhD

A campaign should be launched to ensure adequate representation of the Shudras in all the four pillars of democracy – executive, legislature, judiciary and media

For the rejected and the oppressed in India, 1 January means much more. They find new strength to live with dignity when they look back at that day when the Peshwa rule came to an end