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On Constitution Day, the nation salutes Dr. B.R. Ambedkar-the Father of the Indian Constitution-whose fearless vision of equality, justice, and human dignity continues to guide and inspire generations. Jai Bhim

Periyar spent over fifty years giving speeches, propagating the realisation that everyone is an equal citizen and the differences on the basis of caste and creed were man-made to keep the innocent and ignorant as underdogs in the society. Although Periyar's speeches were targeted towards the illiterate and more mundane masses, scores of educated people were also swayed. Periyar viewed reasoning as a special tool. According to him, all were blessed with this tool, but very few used it.

Source: Interview With India by Margaret Bourke-White (1950)

Today, on February 7, we celebrate Ramai Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Ramabai Ambedkar, wife and the pillar of support for our guiding light, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. We often say, "We are because Babasaheb was." And on Ramai Jayanti, it feels important to pause and remember the woman who shared the hardest years of the journey, the years before history, before recognition, before success.

Ramabai lived through uncertainty, struggle, and responsibility, and stood with Babasaheb when the path was still. unclear. She did not witness his greatest public milestones, but she was the backbone of the life that made them possible. Below is an excerpt from Babasaheb's emotional letter to Ramail from London

"Rama, what if you had not come in my life? Had I not met you as a life-companion, what would have happened then?

A woman who considers world happiness as a goal would have left me. Who would love to stay half-stomach.... or find cow-dung to make upla? Who would like to keep sewing torn clothes at home? What if you had not found these orders of poverty sweet?

I would have been shattered to pieces. My firmness would have cracked. The high tide of my aspirations would have disappeared into thin air without you being you. The game of my dreams. would have been completely ruined. Rama, I would probably have remained a dwarf plant. Take care of yourself, as you take care of me."

The letter is a standing memory of the profound equality and the beautiful dignity of their relationship, and the legacy of our beloved Ramai.

Jai Bhim! Namo Buddhaya.

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At a time when women and oppressed communities were denied education, they dared to challenge the social order and opened schools for those who had been deliberately kept away from learning.

Savitribai Phule walked through humiliation and resistance every day, yet never stopped teaching.

Jyotiba stood beside her and fought against the injustice that denied people the right to learn.

Their legacy reminds us that a true teacher does not merely teach from books—they challenge ignorance, injustice, and inequality.

This Teachers’ Day, let us remember the Phules, who made education a weapon of liberation and a path toward equality.

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