I can remember seeing Ambedkar pictures as graffitti on walls, statues being celebrated in Chennai from long long ago... Initially, I used to think he was a Tamilian... then when I was in karnataka, because he was celebrated there also I thought he was a south indian probably not born in Tamilnadu.
Later when learning about his involvement with Nehru, the constitution, and all, I got to understand he was actually a North-Indian, but his actions made him a celebrity around India... especially the idealogies of uplifting lower class by caste quota in education and employment policies... called "Reservation".. what is one of the chiefly argued topics even today.
I am still strangely surprised that there has been a person who is celebrated all around the country, and he never got something sort of a media attention or publicity... but only became a celebrity, due to fondness because of his thoughts and actions helping people later. Sir.Ambedkar seems to have had an interesting amount of Futuristic vision in law and political thought.
Even today, if somebody threw a stone on an Ambedkar statue there will be a riot. And people raise statues for him without thinking twice that he was not one of them or one of their caste.. etc., How is that?
