Constitution Day Special Screening

We will be screening movie Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is a 2000 Indian English feature film directed by Jabbar Patel. It stars Mammootty in the title role. The film tells the story of B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in the emancipation of the downtrodden and oppressed classes in India and shaping the Constitution of India, as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly.
At the end of the final reading of India's constitution on 25 November 1949, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country's Dalits (formerly called 'Untouchables'), delivered a typically prescient speech.

"On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life, we will have inequality," Ambedkar said.

With the constitution coming into force, India declared itself as a sovereign, democratic and republic state that day. In his speech, Ambedkar was possibly alluding to the contradictions between a young republic and an old civilisation. Democracy, he had said separately, was only a "top-dressing on Indian soil" which was "essentially undemocratic", and the village was a "sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism".

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