[Reader-list] ambedkar jayanti

[lakshmi kutty]

To all those who cherish the spirit of relentlessly questioning and de-stabilizing the status quo... greetings on Ambedkar jayanti!

Ideals as norms are good and are necessary. Neither a society nor an individual can do without a norm. But a norm must change with changes in time and circumstances. No norm can be permanently fixed. There must always be room for re-evaluation of the value of our norms. The possibility of revaluing values remains open only when the institution is not invested with sacredness. Sacredness prevents revaluation of its values. Once sacred always sacred.

-Babasaheb Ambedkar
(Courtesy 'Insight', a magazine of the Ambedkar Study Circle, JNU)
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