Tribute to Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on His 130Th Birth
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Weekly Editor-in-Chief: Prem Kumar Chumber Contact: 001-916-947-8920 Fax: 916-238-1393 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] VOL- 13 ISSUE- 5 April 14, 2021 California (USA) www.ambedkartimes.com www.deshdoaba.com Remembering Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Tribute to Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on his Birth Anniversary – April 14, 2021 Prem Kumar Chumber (Editor-in-Chief) Ambedkar Times & Desh Doaba Weekly Newspapers on his 130th Birth Anniversary Let me join our all-esteemed read - he central theme of the teachings order. He organ - ers, contributors and sympathiz - T of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar lies in his phi - ized long temple ers in paying floral tribute to losophy of social democracy. He was of satyagrahas and Boddhisattva Bharat Ratan the firm views that political freedom of other peaceful Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ramji India will remain incomplete unless it is protests. Finally, Ambedkar on the auspicious day buttressed by social and economic he embraced of his 130th Birth Anniversary. equality. One man, one vote and one Buddhism as he Babasaheb Dr B.R. Ambedkar value - the signpost of political democ - articulated in devoted his whole life in learning, racy - will fail to realise its essence in In - his classic - cultivating and disseminating the dependent India in the presence of Buddha and his Ronki Ram caste-based boundaries of social segre - Dhamma - pub - Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chair Professor essence of social democracy, of Political Science beginning from the grassroots, gation and the resultant dominant struc - lished posthu - Panjab University, Chandigarh for building an egalitarian social, tures of social oppression, economic mously. [email protected] exploitation and political marginalization. Dr. Visiting Professor, Centre for Sikh political and economic order free and Panjabi Studies, from the constraints of religious Caste, he stipulated, negates equality. It Ambedkar University of Wolverhampton, UK compartmentalization and caste- is antithetical to very idea and phenom - wanted his peo - based social segmentations. He enon of democracy. Caste divides not ple to know about the possible reasons has been fondly remembered not only labour but also labourers; and cre - behind their hard life conditions and po - only in Bharat but the entire world ates deep social fissures of political apa - litical marginalization. His slogan: edu - over for his strictly adhering to the principles of democratic struggle within the sovereign constitutional ways and deep concern for the lowest of the low and poor people. He earned highest available degrees of higher education from the best of the universities in India, the United States of America, and United Kingdom. He adopted legal- constitutional methods to win the long-denied rights of the hapless and so - cially excluded sections of the society and made them aware of their rights by establishing three newspapers (Mook Nayak, Janata and Prabudh Bharat), and organized them by founding three political parties (Independent Labour Party, Scheduled Castes Federation, Republican Party of India). Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar was a true democrat, great organizer, erudite scholar, eloquent speaker, conscientious philosopher, brilliant parliamentar - ian, audacious administrator and a thoroughly fine human being. He served the nation at various top offices but never compromised with the integrity and cause of poor people and egalitarian principles of social order based of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity! His contribution as the Chief-architect of the constitution of Independent India, advocate of women rights, laborers and the savior of the lowest of the low and staunch defender of social dem - ocratic values would be remembered fondly for the times to come. During Tribute to Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar Ambedkar Times and Desh Doaba forum also fondly remember 13 at a Seminar (GCAMC, Abohar, Feb 24, 2015) April; on this day in 1699, Tenth Master Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji baptized From left to right: Satisk K. Sharma, K.C. Sulekh, M. Dwivedi, the five beloved (Punj Pyare) at Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib. Prakash Ambedkar (Grandson of Dr. Ambedkar), Guru Gobind Singh Ji infused a new spirit in them - the spirit of freedom, Neeraj Kumar, Ronki Ram P.S. Verma and the Convener of the Seminar equality, justice - and put to an end for all times the oppressive social system of caste-based binaries of purity and pollution. *Manas Kee Jaat thy that eventually leads to invisible cate, agitate and organize aimed at Sabhe Akay Pehchanbo - Equality of Mankind. We wish to all Very Very islands of dissension and structural vio - awakening people about their social con - Happy Khalsa Sathapan day and Happy Vaisakhi!* lence. The virulence of caste-based so - straints and conditions so that they can It is matter of great honour and pleasure for us to share with our cial order hampers the progressive critically think about them (agitate) and esteemed readers, contributors and sympathizers that with your continuous growth of the idea of a true nation which make efforts to get organize themselves support and encouragement, Ambedkar Times (English Weekly) has entered the protagonists of Indian renaissance for building a new India free from the bi - its 13th year of uninterrupted publication on March 15, 2021, and Desh honed so meticulously in their communi - naries of high and low and social exclu - Doaba (Punjabi Weekly) its 10th year of onward journey in the service of tarian philosophical discourses over the sion. His was a unique approach from society. Ambedkar Times, named after Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and long span of late nineteenth and the below towards nation building in India. dedicated to Sahib Kanshi Ram, reminds us the golden time spent by twentieth century freedom movement of His nationalism was all inclusive. It en - Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at the Columbia University (New York) that exposed him to the basic tenets, philosophy and the practice of true democ - India. Dr. Ambedkar views on caste and sures communal harmony and equal par - racy. After reaching Bharat, Babasaheb developed a great movement for the its eradication for building social egalitar - ticipation to all sections of society restitution of social democracy at the grassroots. Desh Doaba, named after ian order and thereupon inter-commu - irrespective ofcaste creed, class, region, Doaba Punjab, reminds us of our roots and the great sacrifices made by the nity-faith based nationalism, resembles and language. His freedom mantra - lib - sons of the soil for the liberation of our land from the British Raj. The many of his contemporaries and prede - erty, equality and fraternity - clearly elab - inhabitants of Doaba Punjab played a significant role in the Ghadar Lehar cessors who had the opportunity to be - orates that fraternity without equality and the subsequent Babbar Akali Lehar. Desh Doaba weekly has been come familiar with the evolving would be an empty word. And without dedicated to Babu Mangu Ram Mugowalia, who arrived in the United States democratic world of Europe and North fraternity liberty is a mirage. It is in this of America in 1909 and was among the forerunners of the Ghadar move - America. Like Raja Rammohan Roy, crucial context that we need to re-read ment, and after reaching India in 1925 founded the Ad Dharm movement Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghosh, Ambedkar at present when not only we for the emancipation and empowerment of the Scheduled Castes. His con - and Rabindranath Tagore, Dr Ambedkar alone in Asia but the whole world has tribution towards the mission of Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar is well known underlined the utmost importance of so - been grappling with Covid and the in - during the London Round Table Conferences. cial reforms to build democracy on equitable consequences of the much Once again, the Ambedkar Times and Desh Doaba forum join with strong footing in independent India. He talked about neo-liberal economic our esteemed readers, contributors and sympathizers in fondly remembering made all efforts to improve upon the so - regimes having its bearings on the vic - Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on his birth anniversary – April 14, 2021. cial set up within the mainstream Hindu tims of the pandemic! www.ambedkartimes.com V0l-13 2 Issue-5 www.deshdoaba.com April 14, 2021 Growing International Recognition of Babasaheb Ambedkar n the run up to the ing to the ruling dispensation in Interna - I forthcoming birth New Delhi namely; Minister tional Day anniversary of Thawar Chand Gehlot, MOS Som of Equality. Babasaheb B.R. Ambed - Parkash, MOS Ramdass Athawale, I wrote to kar on April 14, interna - MOS Rattan Lal Kataria and MPs you on the tional recognition of the Hans Raj Hans, Ram Shankar proposal in greatest son of India is Katheria, Sunita Duggal, Dushyant this re - growing by the every Gautam and also Chairman of Na - gard, rest - passing year. It is a mat - tional Commission for Scheduled ing with ter of great satisfaction Castes Vijay Sampla with the hope MEA since to the followers of mil - that they would stand up and pay June, lions and millions of fol - attention to this important proposal 2015, vide lowers of the icon, Dr. on International Day of Equality. It my letters Ramesh Chander Bhimrao Ramji Ambed - goes without saying that it will add dated April Ambassador - I.F.S. (Retired) kar, both in India and to India’s international standing as 15 and abroad and the interna - ‘Soft Power’ as International Day Setember 91-99885-10940 tional community at large of Yoga and International Day of 13, 2020 yearning for the equitable Non-violence did in the recent past (Copies enclosed for ready reference) world order. The latest in besides contributing to millennium but till date no decision appears to the series is a happy de - goals of the UN in establishing a be in sight. The next anniversary of velopment – Province of just and equitable world order.