डॉ. भीमराव अम्बेडकर आपके ही नहीं, देश के भी अच्छे नेता साबित होंगे. -शाहूजी महाराज

आज ही के दिन, 6 मई 1922 को इस महापुरुष छत्रपति शाहू जी महाराज का परिनिर्वाण हुआ. अम्बेडकर ऑनलाइन इन्हें कोटि-कोटि नमन करता है. 





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What is More Important; Statue Or A Public Library?

A lot of you would be in your 20s and that the letter which follows will resonate with your

aspirations and hopes from the government. During a time when our government would rather

spend thousands of crores on a statue rather than building hospitals, schools, etc, in the name

of nationalism, I believe the following letter to the Editor of ‘The Chronicle’ by Dr Bhimrao Ramji

Ambedkar is especially an important read for everyone. 

Dr Ambedkar wrote this letter when he was a post-graduate student at Columbia University,

New York, United States of America and was in his 20s. He sent this letter on a proposal by the

Bombay Municipal Corporation to erect a statue of Sir Phirozshah Mehta in Bombay. 

Referring to this above proposal, Baba Saheb Dr Ambedkar wrote, “Permit me to say that

individually I regard this particular form of Sir P. M. Mehta memorial to be very trivial and

unbecoming, to say the least. I have been at pains to understand why his memorial cannot

be in a form which will not only be a true memorial of him but will be of permanent use to posterity. As combining these two purposes, I would suggest that in my humble opinion the memorial of Sir P. M. Mehta should be in the form of a public library in Bombay to be called

Sir Pherozshah Mehta Library.”

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