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RE:RE:Discrimination against Tamil Bramhins does affect the image of TamilNadu and Chennai
by shekar on May 04, 2007 11:39 AM

miss vijaya .b
A great personality mr.AMBEDKAR ONCE remarked that HE WOULD BE HAPPY IF I MAKE HINDUS REALIZE THAT THEY R SICK MEN OF THIS COUNTRY AND THEIR SICKNESS IS CAUSING DANGER TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF OTHER INDIANS.IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF RELENTLESS STRUGGLE OF BABASAHEB THAT DOWNTRODDEN SECTIONS AND BACKWARDS ARE LIVING LIFE OF DIGNITY IN THIS COUNTRY. .IT WAS HE WHO SAVED LIFE OF GANDHI ON THE EVE OF POONA PACT, BHAGWAN OSHO WHEN ASKED REGARDING GANDHI'S EPIC FAST SAID THAT GANDHI DRANK NOT ORANGE JUICE BUT DRANK BLOOD OF DALITS . IN APPEAL TO UPPER CLASS LEADERS DURING THAT OCCASION ,AMBEDKAR SAID 'EVEN IF U HANG ME TO NEAREST LAMPOST ,I WILL NOT GIVE UP JUST LEGETIMATE INTEREST OF MY PEOPLE,SUCH WAS HIS DEDICATION TO DOWNTRODDEN CLASSES.SUCH MEN ARE SELDOM BORN,AND BORN ONCE IN THOUSAND YEARS.U GO THROUGH HIS BOOKS RIDDLES OF HINDUISM AND OTHER VOLUMES AND THEN COMMENT ON THAT GREAT PERSONALITY.

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