Editorial Team Dr B R Ambedkar lives on through all of us. On his 124th Birthday, we honour him with a song by the Telugu poet, late Kalekuri Prasad.
Video Courtesy: Dalit Camera
Translation: Kuffir
You stood up for us!
You were born for us!
You stood up for us!
Wiping away our age old fate
You have laid the foundation for building a new age!
O Babasaheb Ambedkar!
For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion
Caught In the fangs of the caste demon
In a world filled with deceit
When your people languished
Crushed under the spell of Manu dharma
Ostracized as outcastes,
You rose as the blazing Sun
And burnt Manu into ashes!
O Babasaheb Ambedkar!
For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!
Untouchable! Slave of the savarnas!
O lonely one, the landlord’s servant!
O perennially starving coolie!
This wretched way of life can’t continue anymore!
Here’s your savior!
O Babasaheb Ambedkar!
For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!
You were born on this earth
In the caste of the oppressed
Separated from the rest by villains
Who said only the ghetto is yours;
You demolished this degrading system
That tied a broom to your behind
And a pot over your mouth.
O Babasaheb Ambedkar!
For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!
On the path of Baudha Dhamma
Armed with the Buddha’s preachings,
The Ashtanga Marga,
The Pancha Shila principles,
The values of Samata, Karuna, Pradnya
And impelled by the quest for truth
The chariot of Ambedkar’s ideals moves!
O Babasaheb Ambedkar!
For us Dalit Bahujans, you’re an ocean of compassion!
