Dalit Children Stopped from Singing Song Dedicated to Ambedkar
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 15/04/2018

Vinod Wankhede reports from Buldhana, Maharashtra for Video Volunteers.
 
On Republic Day this year, a primary school in a village in Maharashtra organised a programme to mark the occasion as most schools do. Since Republic Day commemorates the day India adopted its constitution, a group of Dalit students wanted to dedicate a song to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the leading voice in the struggle against caste-discrimination and the driving force behind the constitution.

But the programme was cut short when the children’s turn to perform came. The children belonged to the six Dalit families in a village where the rest of the population, in a clear majority, belongs to the Maratha community – an ‘upper’ caste. Read more: https://www.videovolunteers.org/dalit-children-stopped-from-singing-ambedkar-song/

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