Visited 125 feet tall Dr B R Ambedkar statue and experience centre at Vijayawada, one of the best experience centres in India.

Gender stereotypes r rampant & women r sacrificial scapegoats. No body is spared-young &old; high society &lower class all r made to feel the same. Plight of dalit girl gets all the more compounded due to caste. The poem reflects the plight of dalit girls- Mou Mukherjee Das

A functioning, robust democracy requires healthy, educated, participatory followership&an educated, morally grounded leadership పనిచేసే స్ట్రాంగ్ ప్రజాస్వామ్యం కావాలంటే ఆరోగ్యవంతమైన, చదువుకున్న,భాగస్వాములయ్యే ప్రజలు& చదువుకున్న, మంచివారైన నాయకులు వుండాలి Chinua Achebe,AfricanPoet

Clarity- as to what you want to do and why? This is central for any person to succeed in their mission(s).

If you want to create history, you must understand history.

“Knowledge without action is useless& action without knowledge is futile” He advocated for correct education-Tritiya Ratna-the one that sees the Indian history from the lens of marginalised.He was one of the three gurus of Ambedkar Remembering Mahatma Jotiba Phule on his Jayanthi

“Go west, young man” was a common saying in China & other eastern countries for a millennium- that was to encourage young people to go and study in India. Such was the fame of Indian universities Hope we can revive them one day to their glory At the ruins of #Nalanda university

All oppressed must wage a relentless struggle for regaining the lost rights and for establishing the kingdom of righteousness with whatever means they have, in whatever station they are in. No one small or less capable in this fight; Every effort counts. ✊🏾 #HappyAmbedkarJayanthi

Do you know that Dr Ambedkar had 60000 books in his personal library? He built his house Rajgriha mainly for keeping the books. Upon donation, now the entire collection is at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Library in Siddhartha College. Visit to #Rajgriha & Library #LargestPersonalLibrary

IndianRailways started their journey on 16th April in 1853. Now with a route length of 64k+km, carrying 24 million passengers daily, employing 1.2 million, it is world’s fourth largest railway system. My career started with IR #TicketCollectorToDistrictCollector #IndianRailways

Whole world knows about Anne Frank, the Jew girl who wrote about her horrific experiences under Hitler. How many of us know our own *Mukta Salve*, 14 yr old Dalit girl who wrote about the horrific experiences the community is going under the caste system? forwardpress.in/2020/02/165-ye…

Subject everything to scrutiny. No dogmas. No blind beliefs. That’s what the Buddha preached all his life and lived upto it. Is there any other religious founder who threw everything they taught open to such scrutiny ? #Rationality

Happy Buddha Purnima. The Buddha taught humanity the concepts of universal compassion and knowledge. Let’s follow his path - Buddhism-the ‘religion of books’ and strive for establishing the kingdom of righteousness. Bhavathu Sabba Mangalam- Let All Beings be Happy

Happy Buddha Purnima

Ghulamgiri-published-1st June 1873 Without education, wisdom was lost;without wisdom, morals were lost;without morals, development was lost; without development, wealth was lost;without wealth, the Shudras were ruined; so much has happened due to lack of education-Jyotiba Phule

Of course, you can go anywhere, can speak anything you wish, subject to the restrictions imposed by law. But what is the use of such freedom? A human has a body as well as a mind. Mere physical freedom is of no use. Freedom of the mind is of prime importance Ambedkar Vol 17 Part3

Modern day Four Noble Truths-Dr Ambedkar version 1. There is widespread suffering of injustice & poverty 2. Social, political & cultural institutions of oppression-the collective expression of greed, hatred &delusion 3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 4. Educate! Agitate! Organise!

Happy Independence Day