H.Mohan Kumar from Tehelka writes about the real revolutionary, who is the real revolutionary of India in the past 100 years. There is no one in India can claim or come close to the real Revolutionary who is shaping up and uplifting the ordinary Indians, that is Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

Sidhartha Shome deliberates on Ambedkar’s differences with Gandhi.

Ambedkar eventually developed a political philosophy that was almost diametrically opposed to Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj world view. In Ambedkar’s view, the traditional Indian village economy and society – so favored by Gandhi – was fundamentally exploitative of the lower castes. Rather, Ambedkar saw modernity and economic and industrial development as fundamentally emancipatory for the oppressed.

Vrdala posts the video of a lecture on Dr Ambedkar by Gopal Guru, one of the foremost Dalit intellectuals in the country today.

What good is a movement, or a day that celebrates its heroes, if it doesn’t upset a few people? Read this post from ‘Excerpts of my mind”

If Mayawati has just once thought of bettermentof poor people she would have never planned a park like Ambedkar park, just to glorify her name. Ambedkar’s name is just a reason to convince others, the main motto of making such parks is to put her own statue along with Kanshiram.

May these statues can help poor dalits in improving their lifestyle, their living standards or give them jobs. The money could have given a whole good life to hundreds of families. But it is now useless, and just converted into an structure of concrete with no emotions, no sentiments and no humanity and making nothing good of anyone including Mayawati. It is just giving personal satisfaction to Mayawati, that she is now able do whatever she wants; she is a king, a dictator; who does not care about common man, a dalit or a poor person.

Pravin too is concerned at the ritualism associated with the day:

The day gone by was 14th April. There must have been scores of bloggers, essentially from higher stratas of our society, thinking, writing, talking about one Man who, they think, made their life miserable. Yes, you guessed it right. I am talking about Ambedkar Jayanti and the rituals associated with it.