B.R. Ambedkar
Coverage of B.R. Ambedkar in the Nexus archive.
- Over-interpreting the youth
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Janta Party, cited inspiration from the movie Swades and highlighted issues with the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and India's brain drain. The article discusses activists like Sudha Bharadwaj and Rev. Stan Swamy, who worked with marginalized communities, and references social reformers B.R. Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh in the context of the Cockroach protests.
- On the approach and outlook of Tamil Nadu’s Scheduled Caste leaders in late 1940s
In the 1946 provincial elections, the Congress outperformed the Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) founded by B.R. Ambedkar in the Madras Presidency, winning 27 of 30 seats allocated to Scheduled Castes.
- Vandalism of Ambedkar’s statue sparks anger in U.P.’s Hapur
Vandalism of Ambedkar’s statue in Hapur, U.P., has sparked public anger. Senior district police officials and local police teams arrived at the scene and reinstalled the statue.