Prakash Ambedkar

Ashis Nandy leaves JLF, police seek video of his session

Sociologist Ashis Nandy on Sunday returned to Delhi from Jaipur where he was attending the Literature Festival. Nandy stirred up a controversy on Saturday after he seemingly blamed the Dalits for the corruption menace in the country. Even as he apologised for his remarks and insisted that he had been misquoted, an FIR was filed against him. ...  

'Nandy's remarks against Dalits show intellectual bankruptcy'

Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution and Dalit rights activist, has criticised sociologist Ashis Nandy for his remarks on the Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes at the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...  

'Govt used panel to delete historical background'

The HRD appointed committiee to look into all cartoons in the text books has submitted it's report to the NCERT. ...

'Ambedkar wouldn't have opposed the cartoon'

New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. However, BR Ambedkar's grandson has said that Ambedkar wouldn't have opposed the cartoon. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Prakash Ambedkar said, "The cartoon represented the year 1949 when Ambedkar himself was alive. I have...