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India Exalts Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar: A Paragon of Equity and Erudition

April 14, 2025

On the 134th commemoration of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s nativity, India venerates a luminary whose indomitable spirit and sagacity sculpted the nation’s ethos. The *Marginalised Majority of India (MMI), a vanguard of social rectitude, spearheads this homage to the framer of India’s Constitution, a polymath whose vision for parity remains peerless. Dr. Ambedkar – liberator, savant, and cynosure – endures as an inextinguishable beacon for a nation still contending with the inequities he sought to extirpate.

A Prodigious Legacy
Born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow, Dr. Ambedkar transcended the fetters of a caste-stratified society to emerge as an intellectual titan. Schooled at Columbia and London, his erudition spanned economics, jurisprudence, and sociology. As the artificer of India’s Constitution, he enshrined principles of liberty and egalitarianism, forging a bulwark against systemic oppression. His crusades against untouchability and for the enfranchisement of the dispossessed galvanised a seismic shift in India’s societal paradigm.

Dr. Ambedkar’s oeuvre was prodigious. Beyond social reform, he propounded policies on labour welfare and monetary systems, presaging India’s central banking framework. His clarion call – “Educate, Agitate, Organise” – ignited a conflagration of empowerment, exhorting the marginalised to claim their rightful agency.

An Imperative for Redress
MMI invokes Dr. Ambedkar’s precepts, adjuring India to confront perduring injustices. Caste, though attenuated, persists invidiously: a 2023 National Sample Survey Office study disclosed that 19% of rural households still endure social ostracism predicated on caste. Economic disparities exacerbate this schism, with Scheduled Castes and Tribes – Dr. Ambedkar’s championed cohorts – comprising 25% of India’s populace yet occupying under 10% of formal-sector vocations, per 2024 Ministry of Labour data.

Through peripatetic marches, erudite symposia, and communal colloquies, MMI seeks to reinvigorate Dr. Ambedkar’s aspirations. “His vision of an equitable India demands not mere veneration but resolute endeavour,” Nagesh Bhushan declared. The movement advocates for amplified educational access, economic parity, and the extirpation of caste-based animus to perpetuate his legacy.

An Unrelenting Imperative
Dr. Ambedkar’s odyssey epitomised the triumph of intellect and rectitude over adversity. Yet, seven decades post-Constitution, India grapples with actualising his lofty ideals. Political grandiloquence oft eclipses substantive reform, and affirmative policies encounter recalcitrance. MMI cautions that without audacious measures, Dr. Ambedkar’s vision risks ossification into hagiography rather than a living mandate.

As India extols its preeminent progenitor, it faces an exigent question: can it emulate his fortitude? Dr. Ambedkar’s summons for fraternity and justice reverberates with undiminished urgency. His birth anniversary transcends mere observance; it is an admonition to forge an India where no soul languishes in the penumbra of inequity.

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