Samar S. Sheikhawat

Bhimrao Ambedkar sat on a gunny sack at school & had to wait for the peon to give him water as being an untouchable he could not touch the tap or surai. When he passed the 4th standard in school his Mahar community wanted to organize a feast as no one had studied that far. He was the first Indian to obtain a Doctorate in Economics from abroad. His work ' Waiting for a Visa' was a textbook in his alma mater, Columbia University. He was a prolific reader, with a personal library of over 50,000 books even though he lost a whole lot when the ship bringing his books from his Columbia days was torpedoed. His work, 'The Problem Of The Rupee : Its Origin And Its Solution' and his presentation to the Hilton Young Commission is regarded as one of the primary inspirations behind the creation of the RBI He led the team that drafted our constitution. He opposed Article 370, wanted a uniform civil code & resigned when his bill demanding equal share for women in inheritance & equal status in marriage was stalled in parliament. On B R Ambedkar's birth anniversary, remembering a giant.