B. R. Ambedkar

...state's investigation into parks honouring the contribution of the Dalit caste - including the father of the Constitution B R Ambedkar - to the nation. The Uttar Pradesh state government is investigating millions of dollars it says were misappropriated by...

...book had nothing offensive. It said the textbooks "provided extensive coverage to the immense contribution of Baba Saheb Dr B R Ambedkar to Indian society. He is hailed as the principal architect of the Constitution of India". The council added, "Political...

...is yet to see the light. There is an opportunity to construct 258 houses for those belonging to scheduled case and tribe under Dr B R Ambedkar housing scheme. But till date, the list of beneficiaries has not been submitted by the gram panchayats. Deadlines...

...Minister Kapil Sibal, who announced the setting up of the committee in Parliament on Monday following uproar over the cartoon of B R Ambedkar in NCERT textbooks, has made it clear that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as...

...Ramdev agitation. Linking the issue of Dalit pride to that of the recent controversy over the publication of an old cartoon on Ambedkar in school text books, he asked, "Why don't political parties show the same solidarity and resolve in deciding on a Dalit...

...after the purportedly offensive cartoon portraying Jawaharlal Nehru and B R Ambedkar was published in an NCERT textbook, the entire Parliament has woken up to it. And all of a sudden, what was obviously intended to be a funny statement on the birth of the...

...Price of Power by Seymour Hersh; Such a long journey by Rohinton Mistry; Riddle of Hinduism authored by no less a person than B R Ambedkar himself have been banned. Then came the turn of Aubrey Menen's Ramayanan, James Laine's Shivaji: The Hindu king in Islamic...

...one of the most vulnerable spaces today. The recent fracas created by the political class' intemperate response to first B R Ambedkar's cartoon, and then almost all cartoons in NCERT textbooks, again underlines the fragility of this space. Even more in danger...

...VI," she says. "And children are excited by it as textbooks are usually dry." She says that the reaction of the government to the Ambedkar cartoon is excessive. "Ambedkar's grandson has come out and said that the leader would not have objected to the cartoon....

...egging on his ministers, all of whom are on snails holding whips. It is dubbed “Indian Derby.” It was a Shankar cartoon showing B R Ambedkar on a snail with a whip, with Nehru standing behind him holding another whip, that was seen to be offensive by MPs....